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Paleolithic Age

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Paleolithic   means "Old Stone"  
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nomads   People who regularly move from place to place to survive  
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technology   Tools and methods to perfrom tasks  
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Ice Age   Long periods of extreme cold that affected all of Earth  
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Hunter-Gatherer   A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild food; the main human activity for the first 2 million years of humanity  
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domesticate   To tame plants and animals for human use  
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band   a small family group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory  
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Paleolithic Era   The earliest part of the Stone Age when people lived by hunting and gathering  
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flint   a hard stone that was used to make tools in the Paleolithic Era  
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fire   Paleolithic age humans learned to use it for protection and cooking  
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Paleo   Greek root word for ancient or old  
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lithos   Greek word meaning stone  
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resource   something used to fulfill a need  
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flaking   a process of shaping stone by chipping pieces off the edges  
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2.5 Million   The Paleolithic Era lasted about ________________________ years.  
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easier   The development of technology during the Stone Age made life _______________________.  
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spear   The _____________________________ was important hunting technology for the Stone Age people.  
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bands   Wandering nomads lived in small groups called __________________________.  
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temperary   Paleolithic Age hunter-gatherers lived in ____________________________ homes.  
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