Prehistory
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- hunting and gathering
- People who lived in the wild, built their own shelters, tools, weapons, & made their own clothes. They ate fruits, roots, leaves, nuts, & meat
- irrigation
- supplying land with water through a network of canals
- civilization
- A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
- domesticate
- To adapt wild plants for human use, tame wild animals, or plants for human use
- archaeologist
- A scientist who examines objects to learn about human past
- oral tradition
- Stories passed down by word of mouth
- prehistory
- Time before writing was invented
- nomad
- Person who has no settled home
- Stone Age
- The earliest known period of human culture
- river valley
- A lowland among mountains having a river source
- social class
- A group of people with similiar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living
- surplus
- More than is needed