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Historical Vocabulary
The Ages of Prehistory
Our Human Ancestors
Prehistoric Life
100
Period of the human past before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
100
Period when the northern continents were buried under ice and snow.
What was the Ice Age?
100
Continent where the earliest humanlike remains have been found.
What is Africa?
100
Earliest (Paleolithic) ways of getting food.
What were gathering and hunting?
200
The story of the human past
What is history?
200
Before the birth of Christ.
What does B.C. stand for?
200
Muscular prehistoric people who were not ancestors of modern humans.
Who were Neanderthals?
200
A shaped stone.
What was a tool?
300
Development that separates prehistory from recorded history
What is writing
300
Anno Domini, the years after the birth of Christ.
What is A.D.?
300
Prehistoric people who greatly resembled modern humans.
Who were Cro-Magnons?
300
Earliest clothing material.
What was animal skin?
400
Folktales that explain the past
What are legends
400
First period of human history.
What was the Stone Age?
400
Characteristic that allowed humans to use their hands freely.
What was erect posture?
400
Resource used both for cooking and as a a weapon.
What was fire?
500
The way of life of a people
What is culture
500
What C.E. stands for.
What is "Common Era"?
500
Skill that allowed humans to pass along knowledge.
What was language?
500
Neanderthal shelters.
What were caves?