Early Humans Vocabulary

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Before Common Era

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BCE

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Common Era

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CE

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A time when early people used stone to make weapons and tools.

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Stone Age

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Early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years when primitive stone tools were used by nomadic tribes of early humans.

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Paleolithic

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Having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

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Nomadic

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Movement from one country, place, or locality to another.

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Migration

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Later part of the Stone Age when more sedentary people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements.

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Neolithic

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Staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places in search of food and shelter.

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Sedentary

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Also known as agricultural revolution. A fundamental change in the way people lived from hunting and gathering to agriculture; it led to permanent shelter.

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Neolithic Revolution

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The time period known as the Middle Stone Age.

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Mesolithic