Chapter One: Vocabulary

Mrs. Holodick's Library

Surplus: more than is needed

Artisan: a worker who is especially skilled at crafting items by hand

Geography: the study of the Earth's surface and the processes that shape it

Hominid: a modern human or a member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans

Chapter One: The Beginnings of Human Society Vocabulary Book

Civilization: a society with cities, a central government, job specializations and social classes

Social Class: a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes and ways of living

Archaeologist: a scientist who examines objects to learn about the human past

Oral Traditions: stories passed down by word of mouth

Domesticate: to adapt wild plants or tame wild animals and to breed them for human use

Irrigation: supplying land with water through a network of canals

History: written and other recorded events of people

Prehistory: time before writing was invented

Stone Age: a period of time during which hominids made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest know period of prehistoric culture

Nomad: a person who has no settled home

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