Sect' 2 Chapt' 1 Prehistory pages 1217

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Sect. 2 Chapt. 1Prehistorypages 12-17

• I. Important vocabulary terms p. 12
• A. Stone Age
• B. Nomads
• C. Fertile
• D. domesticate

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II. The Stone Age A. a period of time when
humans made tools and weapons with stone
(and wood!) 1. the earliest known period of
human culture 2. Old Stone Age no farming yet,
still hunter-gatherers a. people learned
how to create and use fire 1) fire enabled
people to live in cold climates b. Old
Stone Age people were nomads 1) Nomads move
from place to place (to search for food)

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• III. Middle Stone Age more advanced tools
  (still stone) 4. New Stone Age farming
  begins! a. people became less nomadic
  b. people began to settle in areas with fertile
  soil 1) fertile soil is rich soil that has the
  nutrients plants need to grow 2) people
  also domesticated plants and animals
  a) to domesticate is to tame or adapt for human
  use

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