| A | B |
| Prehistory | before written records, the story of the past |
| archeologists | Studies the past and looks at artifact and fossils |
| history | after written records, the story of the past |
| oral traditions | telling and spoken stories of the past before written stories |
| nomad | prehistoric people who travelled from place to place for food |
| fertile | rich soil for planting(agriculture) |
| domesticate | making animals for human use (pets and eating) |
| irrigation | systems built to bring water from one place to the other for farming |
| civilization | rules, laws, writing and number systems developed into a society that stays in one place |
| surplus | extra crops that can be now sold(or bartered) to others |
| artisan | crafts/arts person, like a tool maker, shoe maker, pottery maker- more civilized because of a surplus of farming |
| social class | grouping of people accroding to wealth, their jobs |