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- Primary Source
- A document, record or written account of an event by an eye witness to the event.
- Society
- Group of people who lived together and share the same common goal.
- Nomads
- People who have no permanent home, search around for food.
- Civilization
- An advanced society marked by the development and use of written language, by advances in the arts and sciences and the develpoment of laws governing human behavior.
- Artifact
- Any object that was made by humans such as tools, jewelry, pottery, weapons.
- Secondary Source
- A written account made sometime after the event took place, made by people who were not eye witnesses.
- History
- The study of what humans have done on earth.
- Pre-history
- Covers all the time before the invention of writing.
- Carbon-14 Dating
- Can determine the age of anything once living.
- Historic Period
- Starts with the first writings. Historic period is only about the last 5000 years.
- Culture
- Is the total way of life that people in a society share.