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Holt World histoy
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prehistory | time before there was writing |
| hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
| ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
| tool | an object that has been modified to help a person |
| Paleolithic Era | the first part of the stone age, when people first used stone tools |
| society | a community of people who share a common culture |
| hunter-gathers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts, to survive |
| migrate | to move to a new place |
| Ice ages | long periods of freezing weather |
| land bridge | a strip of land connecting two continents |
| Mesolithic Era | the middle part of the stone age |
| Neolithic Era | the new stone age when people learned to make fire and tools |
| domestication | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
| agriculture | farming |
| megalith | a huge stone monument |