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| Values | The beliefs or ideals that guide the way people live. |
| Archaeology | The study of the remains of the past. |
| Artifact | Objects that were made by people long ago, such as tools. |
| Traditions | Customs or beliefs handed down from generation to generation. |
| Artisan | A person skilled in crafts such as carving or tool making. |
| Civilization | A society that has achieved a high level of culture, including the development of systems of government, religion, and learning. |
| Technology | The use of skills and tools to serve human needs. |
| Cultivate | To prepare and use land for raising crops. |
| Specialize | To be trained to do a particular kind of work. |
| Custom | A social habit or way of living in a group. |
| Domesticate | To tame animals in order to make them useful to people |
| Society | A group of people bound together by the same culture |
| Glacier | A great sheet of ice moving slowly |
| Government | The established form of ruling a place. |
| Secondary Source | A written record of the past, such as a book by a historian that is based on information from other sources. |
| History | The record of what has happened in the past. |
| Ice Age | A long period in the past when glaciers covered much of the earth. |
| Religion | The way people worship the God or gods they believe in. |
| Legacy | Traditions and knowledge of a culture that have been handed down to people today. |
| New Stone Age | A period in social development that started about 8000 B.C.E., in which people first domesticated animals, farmed land, and lived in settled communities. |
| Culture | The way of life of a group of people at a particular time, including their customs, beliefs and arts. |
| Primary Source | A first-hand account of an event such as an official document. |
| Nomad | A person without a permanent home who travels in search of food. |
| Old Stone Age | The oldest period of human culture, beginning about 2 million years ago and lasting until about 8000 B.C.E. |
| Prehistory | The period before events were recorded in writing; the Old and New Stone age. |
