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Mrs Emery Ch 2 vocab
Mrs Emery Ch2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is prehistory? | the time before there was written language |
| What is a hominid? | an early ancestor of humans |
| What is an ancestor? | a relative who lived in the past |
| What is a tool? | an object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
| What is Paleolithic Era? | the first part of the Stone Age, when people first used stone tools |
| What is a society? | a community of people who share a common culture |
| What is a hunter-gatherers? | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits and nuts to survive |
| What is migrate? | to move to a new place |
| What is ice ages? | long period of freezing weather |
| What is land bridge? | a strip of land connecting two continents |
| What is the Mesolithic Era? | the middle part of the stone age, marked by the creation of smaller complex tools |
| What is the Neolithic Era? | the New Stone Age when people learned to make fore and tools such as saws and drills |
| What is domestication? | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
| What is agriculture? | farming |
| What is megaliths? | a huge stone monument |