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Roberts - History
Chapter 1 Section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hominid | a modern human or member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans |
| 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 |
| nomad | a person who has no settled home |
| fertile | rich in the substances plants need to grow well; describes soil and land |
| domesticate | to adapt wild plants for human use; tame wild animals and breed them for human use. |
| What did fire permit early hominids to do? | Live in cold climates |
| During the New Stone Age, what did the people do? | farmers and pastoral nomads. |
| How did people migrate? | migrated from Africa to Asia and Europe |
| How did people get their food? | Hunted animals, learned how to create and use fire, gathered wild plants |
| What were tools and weapons made of in the Old Stone Age? | stone |