Kunz - Unit 1: Prehistory*
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| agriculture | the process of growing and taking care of domesticated plants and animals
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| archaeologist | A social scientist who studies the past by examining artifacts
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| artifact | Objects made by humans.
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| B.C.E. | Labels for dates of events that happened before Jesus was born.
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| C.E. | Labels for dates of events that happened after Jesus was born
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| chronology | The order events actually happened
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| domestication | training or changing a plant or animal to become more useful to humans
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| historian | A social scientist who studies and writes down what happened in the past.
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| history | The written record of what happened in the past.
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| hominid | a prehistoric human
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| Homo Sapiens Sapiens | a hominid group that made art, traveled to every continent except Antarctica, and made over 100 types of sophisticated tools - they are the same species as modern humans
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| hunter-gatherer | Nomadic people who hunt animals and collect wild plants for food
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| Ice Age | time period when glaciers covered huge areas of the earth
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| migrate | to move from one place to another to find food, or a better climate
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| prehistory | time period before the invention of writing
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| primary source | Documents, or artifacts, that tell us about life in the past and were made by people who were alive at that time.
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| resources | a dependable supply of something useful that humans can use to make their lives easier
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| specialized | To be designed for a specific purpose OR to have specific knowledge or training
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| Stone Age | A time in prehistory when humans made and used stone tools
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