| A | B |
|---|
| surplus | more food than is necessary |
| primary source | eyewitness account; contemporary source |
| artifact | objects made by humans |
| civilization | complex, highly organized social order; dependent on agriculture |
| historian | people who study and write about the human past; they rely largely on written records |
| technology | skills and tools people use to meet basic needs and desires |
| domestication | raising plants and animals in a controlled way to make them useful to humans |
| hunter-gatherers | economic system in which (generally) men hunt game animals and women and children gather fruit, nuts, berries, and seeds for food; tend to be nomadic |
| prehistory | Time period before writing |
| hominid | human-like animals, relatives of modern humans |
| culture | The total way of life of a group of people- religion and language are particularly important parts... |
| Out of Africa | Theory that says that humans originate in Africa and spread throughout the world. |
| Paleolithic Period | Old Stone Age, people were hunter gatherers and they used stone tools. |
| Neolithic Period | The New Stone Age, this period is characterized by agriculture. |
| secondary source | Created by historians, these sources use primary sources and interpret the past. |
| chronology | patterns in time; timelines |
| narrative | a story with a beginning, middle and an end; historians use primary sources to construct these |
| shrine | a place or structure used for worship or private devotion |
| ritual | actions with a symbolic meaning; or a religious ceremony |
| nomads | people who move from place to place to find food |
| animism | belief that the world is full of spirits and forces that reside in animals, objects, and dreams |
