vocab for history
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jackie20854 on September 29, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fossil | any remains of a once living thing |
| artifact | any object made by early humans |
| culture | a peoples unique way or life,as shown by its customs tools arts and ideas |
| hominid | a member or a biological group inlcuding human beings and related species that walk up right |
| paleolithic age | a prehistoric period that lasted from 2,500,000 to 8000 bc. during wich people made tools and weapons (stone age) |
| neolithic age | a prehistoric period that began about 8000 bc and in some areas ended as early as 3000 bc during when people learned to polish stone tools make pottery grow crops and rasie animals (new stone age) |
| homo sapiens | the biological species that walk up right |
| nomad | a member of a group that has no permanent home wandering from place to place in search of food and water |
| hunter gatherer | a member of a nomadic group whose food suply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods |
| neolithic revolution | the major change in human life caused by the beginnings of farming-thats by peoples shift from food gathering and food producing |
| slash-and-burn-farming | a farming method in wich people clear fields by cutting and burning trees and grasses, the ashes of wich serve to fertilize the soil |
| domestication | the taming of animals for human use |
| alloy | a metal that is a mixture of two or more metals |
| sympathetic magic | the practice of imitating a desired result in order to increase the chances of it happening |
| specilization | the development of skills in a particular kind of work such as trading or record keeping |
| artisan | a skilled worker such as a weaver or a potter who makes goods by hand |
| institution | a long lasting pattern or organization in a community |
| scribe | one of the profesionals record keepers in early civilization |
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