Early Civilizations Vocabulary – Definitions



Early Civilizations Vocabulary – Definitions

1. agrarian – has to do with farming; agriculture

2. nomad – person who moves from place to place in search of food

3. domesticate - tame animals that were once hunted

4. civilization - a complex, highly organized social order

5. permanent – stay in one place

6. development – create

7. food-gathering – farming

8. settlement – staying in one place

9. prehistoric – period of time before writing systems were invented

10. Neolithic – New Stone Age (people learned to farm during this time)

11. Paleolithic – Old Stone Age – people made tools from stone; learned to build fires, developed spoken language

12. cave drawings – created to show the animals hunted by Stone Age people

13. subsistence farming – enough to feed own family with no surplus

14. Artifacts – objects made by human beings

15. revolution - change

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