Unit 1 Vocab v1

Prehistory

• The time period before written records
• The new stone age where people began to stay in one place
• Remains or imprints of things that were once living
• The study of the human past by examining things people left behind

Agriculture Revolution

• The time period when people learned to farm by planting seeds, watering, and harvesting
• People who travel from place to place, without a permanent home
• The study of how human beings behave
• Improved farming techniques created extra crops

Culture

• Many different elements of life, such as food, religion, or music
• The time period when people learned to farm by planting seeds
• The old stone age where people were nomadic and did not have permanent homes
• People who travel from place to place, without a permanent home

Surplus

• Improved farming techniques created extra crops
• Remains or imprints of things that were once living
• People become skilled at a job by working a single job
• People of the past that lived by hunting animals and gathering plants

Paleolithic Age

• The old stone age where people were nomadic and did not have permanent homes
• The time period before written records
• The study of how human beings behave
• The new stone age where people began to stay in one place to live

Neolithic Age

• The new stone age where people began to stay in one place
• The old stone age where people were nomadic
• The study of the human past by examining things people left behind
• People who travel from place to place, without a permanent home

Archaeology

• The study of the human past by examining things people left behind
• The time period before written records
• People become skilled at a job by working a single job
• Improved farming techniques created extra crops

Nomads

• People who travel from place to place, without a permanent home
• The study of how human beings behave
• Remains or imprints of things that were once living
• People become skilled at a job by working a single job

Migration

• When people leave one place to live in another
• The time period before written records
• Human made objects left behind from people of the past
• To change the way plants and animals behave to be more useful to humans

Fossils

• Remains or imprints of things that were once living
• People become skilled at a job by working a single job
• The study of the human past by examining things people left behind
• People of the past that lived by hunting animals and gathering plants