| A | B |
|---|
| Old Stone Age | Made tools from stone, hominids were hunters and gatherers and people learned how to use fire. |
| New Stone Age | People learned how to domesticate plants and animals, they learned how to farm so they settled in one p.lace |
| Oral Tradition | Stories passed down by word of mouth |
| history | Written and other recorded events of people |
| prehistory | Time before writing was invented. |
| surplus | More than needed. |
| irrigation | suppling land with water from a network of canals. |
| artisan | A worker skilled in crafting items by hands |
| social class | A group of people of a similar backgrounds, incomes and ways of living |
| civilization | a society with cities and central government |
| archaeologist | a scientist who examines objects to learn about the past |
| geography | The study of the earth surface and the processes that shape it |
| hominid | a modern human or a member of the earliest group related to humans |
| nomad | a person who has no settled home |
| fertile | soil that is rich in the substances plants need to live |
| domesticate | to adapt wild plants or tame animals and to breed them for use |
| wheel and axel | an invention that allowed people to trade more goods farther away |
