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Calcutt H/G vocab
Vocabulary for the Hunter-Gatherers Unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nomads | a person who travels from place to place without a permanent home |
| social divisions | society divided up by gender, race, class, etc |
| natural resources | something that occurs in nature undisturbed by mankind |
| civilization | settled group of people who have writing, arts, technology, religion, class systems, and governments |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive |
| domestication | changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
| agriculture | farming |
| surplus | more of something than what is needed |
| migrate/migration | to move to a new place |
| irrigation | a way of supplying water to an area of land |