Ancient Civ. Lesson 1-2 Vocab

The before there was writing is called...

• posthistory
• prehistory
• the land before time
• ancestry

Our earliest ancestors are called...

• Homo sapiens
• Homo erectus
• hominids
• Homo habilis

Someone who lived in the past is best known as...

• Austrolopithecus
• ancestor
• Lucy
• Otzi

A handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task.

• Hammer
• Drill
• Tool
• screwdriver 

The first part of the Stone Age.

• Mesolithic Era
• Paleolithic Era
• Neolithic Era
• New-lithic Era

Community of people who share a common culture.

• Society
• Race
• School

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive.

• Farmers
• hunter-gatherers
• hominids
• Homo sapiens

To move

• Fly South
• Migrate
• land bridge
• ice age

Freezing times are called..

• Stone Age
• Ice Age
• Neolithic Era
• Mesolithic Era

a strip of land connecting two continents

• land bridge
• Ben Franklin Bridge
• Walt Whitman Bridge
• Golden Gate Bridge