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Stone age
World History stone age unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prehistory | the time before there was writing |
| hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
| ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
| tool | any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
| Paleolithic Era | the lst part of the Stone Age |
| society | a community of people who share a common culture |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants,seeds, fruits, an nuts to survive |
| migrate | 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, from about 10,000 years ago to about 5,000 years ago |
| Neolithic Era | the New Stone Age, which began about 10.000 years ago in Southwest Asia and much later in other places |
| domestication | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
| agriculture | the development of farming from the domestication of plants |
| megaliths | huge stones used as monuments or sites for religious gatherings |