Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Time before there was writing

• Prehistory

• Migrate

• Ancestor

• Megalith

People who hunt animals and plants and nuts to survive

• Agriculture

• Hunter-gathers

• Domestication

• Society

Farming

• Hunter-gathers

• Megalith

• Agriculture

• Hominid

Early ancestor of humans

• Hominid

• Society

• Domestication

• Migrates

To move to a new place

• Migrate

• Domestication

• Tool

• Hominid

Huge stone monument

• Agriculture

• Megalith

• Ancestor

• Tool

Relative who lived in the past

• Hominid

• Prehistory

• Ancestor

• Agriculture

Long periods of freezing weather

• Hominid

• Prehistory

• Land Bridge

• Ice Ages

Era when people learned to make fire and tools, like saws

• Neolithic Era

• Prehistory

• Hunter-gathers

• Megaliths

Object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task

• Society

• Tool

• Megalith

• Land Bridge