| A | B |
|---|
| risks | possible dangers |
| store | keep something so it can be used later |
| starve | die from not having enough food |
| settlements | place where people lived permanently |
| agriculture | farming;agriculture includes preparing soil,planting and harvesting crops,raising animals |
| soil | earth, dirt |
| surplus | extra, more than enough, left-over |
| techniques | ways of doing things, methods |
| local | close by |
| maize | a type of corn which grew in the Americas |
| experimented | tried out different things |
| domestication | rasing animals to help humans |
| moist | damp, wet |
| slash-and-burn | preparing farm land by cutting down and burning trees and blushes |
| population | total number of people |
| villages | places where as many as several hundred early people lived permanently |
| conflicts | fights; struggles; battles |
| obsidian | a very hard type of rock, usually black, made by volcanoes |
