Chapter 2 Vocabulary

The time before there was writing

• prehistory

• archeology

• society

• agriculture

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

• hominid

• hunter-gatherers

• megaliths

• Ice Age

To move to a new place

• prehistory

• migrate

• geography

• development

Long periods of freezing weather.

• Ice Age

• Neolithic Era

• Agriculture

• development

The New Stone Age when people learned to make fire and tools.

• prehistory

• migrate

• domestication

• Neolithic Era

The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.

• distribute

• land bridge

• domestication

• development

Another word for farming.

• Neolithic Era

• domestication

• megaliths

• agriculture

A community of people who share a common culture.

• hunter-gatherers

• homind

• society

• megaliths

an early ancestor of humans is a

• cousin

• hominid

• prehistory

• ancestor

A relative who lived in the past

• domestication

• hominid

• tool

• ancestor