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21 Cards in this Set
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Prehistory |
Time before writing |
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Archaeology |
Study of the past based on what people left behind |
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History |
Study of the past |
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Tool |
Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
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Paleolithic era |
First part of the Stone Age or Old Stone Age |
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Mesolithic era |
Middle Stone Age |
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Neolithic era |
New stone age |
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Hunter gatherers |
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants seeds fruits and nuts to survive |
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Primary sources |
An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witness the event |
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Secondary sources |
Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event |
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Domestication |
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
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Artifacts |
An object created and used by humans |
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Ice Age |
Long period of freezing weather |
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Land bridge |
A strip of land connecting two continents |
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Agriculture |
Farming |
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Migrate |
To move to a new place |
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Hominid |
An early ancestor of humans |
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Megaliths |
A huge stone monument |
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Homo habilis |
Handyman, used early stone tools for chopping and scraping |
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Homo erectus |
Upright man, learned to control fire |
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Homosapien |
Why is man, learned to create fire and use a wide variety of tools |
