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| nomad | A person without a permanent home who travels from place to place in search of food |
| cultivate | To prepare and use land for raising crops; marked the beginning of the New Stone Age |
| glacier | A great sheet of slowly moving ice |
| culture | The way of life of a group of people at a particular time, including their customs, beliefs, and arts. |
| secondary source | A written record of the past, such as a book by a historian, that is based on information from a primary source or sources. |
| specialize | To be trained to do a particular kind of work. |
| customs | Social habits or ways of living in a group. |
| prehistory | The period before events were recorded in writing; the Old and New Stone Age. |
| archaeology | The study of the remains of past cultures. |
| legacy | The gifts a culture has received and the gifts it passes on to future cultures. |
| Old Stone Age | The earliest period of human culture, beginning about 2 million years ago and lasting until about 8000 B.C. |
| artisan | A person skilled in crafts such as carving or tool-making; craftsworker. |
| technology | The use of skills and tools to serve human needs. |
| values | The beliefs, or ideals, that guide the way people live. |
| artifacts | Objects that were made by people long ago, such as tools and pottery. |
| domesticate | To tame an animal in order to make it useful to people. |
| Ice Age | A long period in the past that lasted |
| society | A group of people bound together by the same culture. |
| government | The established form of ruling a place. |
| history | The record of what has happened in the past. |
| primary source | A first-hand account of an event, such as an official document, a diary, or a letter. |
| New Stone Age | A period in social development that started about 8000 B.C., in which people first domesticated animals, farmed the land, and lived in settled communities. |
| religion | The way people worship the God or gods they believe in. |
