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Ch2 Vocab.Mrs Emery
Question | Answer |
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What is prehistory? | time before there was writing |
What is hominid? | an early ancestor of humans |
Who is ancestor? | a relative who lived in the past |
What is 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 society? | a community of people who share a common culture |
Who are hunter-gatheres? | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, adn nuts to survive |
What is migrate? | to move to a new place |
What are ice ages? | long periods of freezing weather |
What is landn bridge? | a strip of land connecting tips of continents |
What is Mesolithic Era? | the middle part fo the Stone Age; marked by the creatiton of smaller and move complex tools |
What is Neolithic Era? | the new Stone Age; when people learned to make fire adn tools such as saws and drills |
What is doomestication? | the process fo changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
What is agriculture? | farming |
What are megaliths? | a huge stone monument |