Module 1 Vocabulary

the time before writing

• millenium

• prehistory

• archaeology

• chronology

beliefs, customs, & practices of a particular nation or group

• culture
• anthropology

• Paleolithic

• tradition

the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans

• timeline

• A.D./C.E.

• agricuture

• domestication

farming

• domestication

• archaeology

• agriculture

• relative location

the old stone age

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Anthropology

the new stone age

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Anthropology

people who get food by hunting animals and gathering plants

• domestication

• historians

• timeline

• hunter-gatherers

the spread of one culture to another

• cultural diffusion

• oral tradition

• historians

• archaeology

Abbreviations used to identify dates in ancient history (before the birth of Jesus)

• A.D./C.E.

• B.C./C.B.

• B.C./B.C.E.

• B.C./A.D.

Abbreviations used to identify dates in more modern history (after the birth of Jesus)

• A.D./C.E.

• B.C./C.B.

• B.C./B.C.E.

• B.C./A.D.