Chapter 1 Vocabulary

The study of Earth's surface and the processes that shape it.

• History

• Social Class

• Geography

• Nomad

To adapt wild plants or tame wild animals and to breed them for human use.

• Oral Traditions

• Surplus

• Prehistory

• Domesticate

A group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living

• Social Class

• Irrigation

• Stone Age

• Geography

A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes

• Artisan

• Civilization

• Nomad

• Domesticate

A person who has no settled home

• Archaeologist

• Surplus

• Hominid

• Nomad

Stories passed down by word of mouth

• Prehistory

• Irrigation

• Oral Traditions

• Nomad

A scientist who examines objects to learn about the human past

• Stone Age

• Civilization

• History

• Archaeologist

A period of time during which hominids made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of prehistoric culture

• Surplus

• Stone Age

• Social Class

• Nomad

A worker who is especially skilled at crafting items by hand

• Archaeologist

• Hominid

• Artisan

• Oral Traditions

More than is needed

• Surplus

• Nomad

• Domesticate

• Geography