Prehistory
Terms
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- Ploytheism
- the belief in many gods
- Surplus
- a large amount of something
- Neolithic Age
- when people gave up the nomadic life and settled down to farm
- History
- when written records were started
- Mesolithic Age
- when people started to figure out farming
- Ideogram
- represents an idea
- BC
- before christ
- Gregorian
- where the system of dating came from
- Century
- 100 years
- CE
- common era
- Legends
- are stories that involve time and place and always invlove people
- Glacier
- a huge sheet of ice
- Cultural Diffusion
- the spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another
- Empire
- a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
- Domesticate
- to tame
- Artisans
- skilled craftworkers
- AD
- anno domini
- Nomad
- person who moves from place to place in search of food
- Decade
- 10 years
- Civilization
- a complex, highly organized social order
- Old Stone Age
- the earliest period of human history
- Phonogram
- a picture that represents a sound
- Myth
- a story expalining why something is the way it is
- Prehistory
- before written records
- Millennium
- 1000 years
- BCE
- before common era
- Pictograms
- simple drawings that look like objects they represent