Unit 1 Vocabulary

An expert to studies and records the past

• Archeologist

• Historian

• Social Scientist

• Geographer

A scientists that has expert knowledge about groups of humans or societies.

• Historian

• Archeologists

• Social Scientist

• Geographer

an expert to studies the past by examining object that people have left behind

• Geographer

• Historian

• Archeologist

• Social Scientist

an expert who studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and humanmade features.

• Social Scientist

• Geographer

• Historian

• Archeologists

an object made or used by people in the past

• fossil

• treasure

• artifact

• antique

An educated guess

• theory

• law

• inference

• hypothesis

a culture marked by developments in arts, sciences, government and social structure

• civilization

• continent

• settlement

• country

belonging to the distant past, from the first humans to the great civilizations

• eon

• millennia

• centuries

• ancient

A major shift from a hunting and gatherer lifestyle to a farming lifestyle

• Agricultural Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• Nomadic Revolution

The later part of the Stone Age, called the New Stone Age. People became farmers and lived in more permanent settlements.

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Ancient

• Agricultural Revolution