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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.

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