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18 Cards in this Set
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History |
The study of the past |
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Archaeology |
the study of the past based on what people left behind |
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Prehistory |
The time before there was writing |
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Hominid |
An early ancestor of humans |
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Ancestor |
A relative who lived in the past |
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Paleolithic era |
The first part of the Stone Age; when people first used stone tools |
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Hunter-Gatherers |
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive |
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Migrate |
To move to a new place |
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Ice Ages |
Long periods of freezing weather |
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Land Bridge |
A strip of land connecting two continents |
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Mesolithic Era |
The middle part of the Stone Age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex tools |
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Neolithic Era |
The New Stone Age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills |
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Domestication |
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
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Megaliths |
A huge stone monument |
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B.C. |
before Christ |
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A.D. |
anno Domini |
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B.C.E. |
Before Common Era |
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C.E. |
Common Era |
