chapter 2 vocab

Question 1

prehistory

Answer 1

what historians all the time before there was writing

Question 2

hominid

Answer 2

an early ancestor of humans

Question 3

ancestor

Answer 3

a relative who lived in the past

Question 4

tool

Answer 4

any handheld object that has modified to help a person accomplish a task

Question 5

Paleolithic Era

Answer 5

the first part of the stone age (old stone age)

Question 6

society

Answer 6

a community of people who share a common culture

Question 7

hunter-gatherers

Answer 7

people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

Question 8

migrate

Answer 8

move

Question 9

ice ages

Answer 9

1.6 million years ago many places around the world began to experience long periods of weather

Question 10

land bridge

Answer 10

a strip of land connecting two conntienents

Question 11

Mesilithic Era

Answer 11

the Middle Stone Age

Question 12

Neolithic Era

Answer 12

new stone age

Question 13

domestication

Answer 13

the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans

Question 14

agriculture

Answer 14

farming

Question 15

megaliths

Answer 15

huge stones used as monuments