| A | B |
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| Agriculture | Farming: the raising of crops and animals for human use |
| Civilization | Cultures with systems of religion, education, government and specialization, to live in a city. |
| Domestication | The training of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
| Era | a long time period defined by specific social, cultural, and/or political characteristics |
| Migrate | To move from place to place |
| Nomads | A group of people who move from place to place to meet their basic needs by hunting animals and gathering plants |
| Neolithic Era | “New Stone Age” when people began to settle down in permanent locations, and ended about 6,000 years ago. |
| Paleolithic Era | “Old Stone Age” The first part of the Stone Age, The period of time when people begin using simple, stone tools |
| Prehistory | the period of time before writing or recording |
| Specialize | To do one thing well |
| Surplus | An extra supply of something |
| Tool | An object used to help a person accomplish a task |
| Technology | The use of skills and tools to meet practical human needs |
| Basic needs | Food, shelter and clothing are what all humans need to survive |
| Africa | The continent with the earliest evidence of human existence |
| Artifacts | Objects from the past |
| Archaeologist | a person who studies artifacts |
| Turning point | a time when a change or changes impact the course of history |
| The Neolithic Revolution | the change from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement |
| Excavate | to dig carefully |
