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Prehistory

• A time before history

• A time before written records

• A time before people knew history

• A time for people to write

Fossils

• Preserved ancient weapons to understand the past.

• Hardened objects put in museums

• Remains of people, animals, or plants.

• Preserved remains of ancient humans, animals, or plants.

Geologists

• Scientists who study the physical materials of the Earth itself, such as soil and rocks.

• Scientists who study DNA to understand the past.

• Scientists who study books to understand the Earth.

• Scientists who understand the past by looking at the things people left behind.

Artifacts

• Anything made or used by humans

• Anything people make

• Objects people make to make life easier

• Ancient objects that help us understand people

Hunter Gatherer

• People that picked fruits and vegetables

• People that hunted animals

• People that lived by hunting animals and gathering plants.

• People that lived by surviving off of living things.

Culture

• A legacy left for people to understand their past.

• What people believe in to pass down to their children.

• Customs of a particular nation or group of people.

• Beliefs, customs, practices, and behavior of a particular nation or group of people.

Which describes a way that early hunter-gatherers got food?

• They used chickens to lay eggs.

• They used tools to kills animals.

• They grew crops on farms.

• They grew seeds and nuts.

What two rivers did Mesopotamia develop near?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Nile and Indus

• Nile and Yellow

What did the Sumerians build?

• pyramids

• first cities

• Great Wall of China

Wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets. First writing system used by ancient people.

• Alphabet

• surplus

• Cuneiform

• Gilgamesh