Unit 2 and Unit 1 Study Flashcards
time period of written records of past events
History
time period before written records
Prehistory
around or about
Circa
an object made in the past by someone in the past
Artifact
eyewitness/first hand account and is created during the time period
Primary
contains information based on primary sources
Secondary Source
period of human prehistory where they hunted & gathered
Old Stone Age
another name for Old Stone Age
Paleolithic
time period when glaciers (large sheets of ice) covered 1/4 of the earth
Ice Age
people who hunted and gathered to survive
Hunter/Gatherer
people who moved from place to follow their food source
Nomad
period of prehistory where farming was invented
New Stone Age
another name for New Stone Age
Neolithic
the training of wild plants and wild animals to be useful to people
Domestication
the raising of crops and animals for human use (farming and domesticating animals).
Agriculture