Prehistory
The period of human history before written records
What is prehistory?
The descriptive name for how early humans aquired their food.
What is a hunter-gatherer.
This is the name for raising animals and growing food.
What is agriculture?
This world shaping catastrophe caused Neolithic humans to settle near rivers.
What is an ice age?
This is the description of a civilization.
The name for our early human ancestors that walked upright.
What is a hominid?
The things that humans have left behind.
What is an artifact?
The name for taming animals and breeding plants to be more useful for human use.
What is domestication?
These are the two names of the rivers in Mesopotamia?
These are the features of a organized government.
What are leaders, laws, taxes, military's, and kings/priests?
This is the continent that early humans first emerged from.
What is Africa?
The primary reason that early humans lived by moving from place to place.
What is following or searching for their food?
Neo, paleo, and lithic are the translations of these words.
What is new, old and stone.
This natural event lead to soil being enriched with silt.
What is river flooding?
This is why job specialization would lead to social classes.
Why do people having different jobs have different value, which results in some people earning more resources than others?
Looking at the half-life of the carbon in a once living thing to determine age.
What is radiocarbon dating?
The three types of stone tools that we studied in class.
What is a hand axe, a scraper, and a spearpoint?
This is a description of how human life changed including both before and after the Neolithic revolution
What is hunting and gathering becoming agriculture, nomadic living becoming permanent settlements, small groups becoming much larger?
This is the name of the river located in neolithic China?
This is the features of a complex religion
What is an archeologist?
The 5 benifits that fire provided.
What is light, warmth, protection, a way to cook food, and a way to hard tools?
These are 5 positive effects from the neolithic revolution.
What is population growth/boom, more technology, division of labor, job specialization, and goverment and laws?
What is water for crops, floods could leave fertile silt, supported animals, and transportation for people and goods.
This is the progression of steps for the 8 parts of a civilization, in order :)
What are advanced cities, organized government, job specialization, social classes, complex religion, arts and architecture, public works, and writing