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Chapter 1 History
Prehistory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| history | the written and other recorded events of people |
| nomad | people with no settled home |
| surplus | more than what is needed |
| prehistory | time before writing was invented |
| fertile | rich in substances that plants need to grow |
| artisan | a worker who is especially skilled in crafting items by hand |
| archaeologist | scientists who examine objects to learn about past peoples and cultures |
| domesticate | adapt wild plants or animals for human use |
| civilization | society that has cities, a central government run by officials, leader, and workers who socialize in various jobs |
| oral tradition | the spoken relation and preservation from one generation to the next of a peoples cultural history and ancestry often by a storyteller in narrative form |
| irrigation | supplying land with water from another place using a network of canals |
| social class | a group of people having similar backgrounds incomes and ways of living |
| Stone Age | a period of time during which early humans made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture |
| geography | the study of Earths surface and the processes that shape it |