Foundations of Human Civilization: Vocabulary

long periods of freezing weather

• ice ages

• migrate

• tool

• megalith

to move to a new place

• migrate

• culture

• climate

• geography

history before writing existed

• prehistory

• history

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

a piece, or strip, of land connecting two continents

• land bridge

• sgriculture

• landforms

• secondary source

people that must survive by hunting animals, gathering wild plants, seed, fruits, and nuts

• hunter-gatherers

• hominids

• ancestors

• megaliths

farming

• agriculture

• domestication

• culture

• climate

an object that has been modified or advanced to help someone accomplish a task

• tool

• agriculture

• archaeology

• artifact

the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans

• domestication

• agriculture

• culture

• climate

a relative or someone you are related to who lived in the past

• ancestor

• culture

• society

• hominid

early ancestors to humans

• hominids

• ancestors

• archaeology

• geography