Chapter 2 Flashcards
(13 cards)
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Prehistory
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Historians call the times before there was writing prehistory
2
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Homind
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An early ancestor of humans
3
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Ancestor
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Ancestor is a relative who lived in the past
4
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Tool
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A tool is any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task
5
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Hunter-gatherers
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People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
6
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Migrate
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Move
7
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Ice Ages
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Freezing time from 1.6 million years ago
8
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Land Bridge
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A strip of land connecting two continents
9
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Mesolithic
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Era, middle stone age
10
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Neolithic Era
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Era, new stone age
11
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Domestication
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The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans is called domestication
12
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Agriculture
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Farming
13
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Megaliths
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Huge stones used as monumenents
