B.C.ing You Later
If a city was founded 10 decades ago, this is how many centuries that equals.
What is 1 century?
Early humans created sharp handaxes and arrowheads using this specific method of striking rocks together.
What is hitting flint against other stones?
The Ice Age ended and the Earth began to warm, causing wild plants to grow more easily and allowing humans to begin doing this.
What is farming?
As early hunting technology improved, basic clubs were replaced by these long-distance piercing weapons.
What are spears and arrows?
This term describes early humans who survived not by farming, but by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants, requiring them to constantly move from place to place.
What is Nomadic Hunter Gatherers?
An archaeologist states that a cave painting was made "c. 8000 BCE." The word "circa" (c.) tells us this date is not exact, but rather this.
What is approximate?
Rather than living in permanent houses, early hunter-gatherers were nomadic, meaning they survived by doing this.
What is moving from place to place to follow food and resources?
Taming wild goats, sheep, and cattle so they could be raised on farms for milk, meat, and wool is known as this process.
What is domestication?
While hunter-gatherers wore clothing made of animal hides, settled farmers learned to make clothes out of these two woven materials.
What are cotton and wool?
At the end of the last Ice Age, this major global climate change allowed wild plants to grow more abundantly, helping trigger the Agricultural Revolution.
What is the warming of the Earth?
A history book mentions an event in 1492 CE. This other two-letter abbreviation means the exact same era as CE.
What is AD?
Nomads didn't construct brick homes; instead, they used natural shelters like caves or built temporary shelters using these materials.
What are animal skins, wood, and plant materials?
The implementation of large-scale farming created this.
What is a food surplus?
Unlike temporary animal skin tents, villagers after the Agricultural Revolution built sturdy homes out of this sun-dried building material.
What are mud bricks?
When early humans transitioned from moving around to building permanent settlements, they chose locations near this.
What is a body of water?
The abbreviation "AD" comes from Latin and means "in the year of our Lord," marking time starting after this major event.
What is the birth of Jesus Christ?
Before long-range bows and arrows were developed, early hunters often captured large beasts by steering them toward this natural terrain feature.
What are cliffs?
Extra food produced by successful farming directly allowed community members to stop farming and do this instead
What is specialize in different jobs?
Early humans used fire not only to cook fresh meat, but also to perform this process so meat could be saved and eaten later.
What is smoking meat?
Early humans used fire in these 5 ways.
What is light, warmth, cooking, preserving, and protection?
Counting backward before year 1, an event in 3000 BCE happened before an event in this BCE year: 1500 BCE or 4000 BCE?
What is 1500 BCE?
Beyond cooking meat and providing heat, early humans kept fires lit at camp during the night to fulfill this critical safety need.
What is keeping away dangerous or threatening animals?
Instead of using coins or paper money, people in early farming villages acquired goods using this trading method
What is the barter system?
Before humans learned to work with metal, they relied on shaping stone, wood, and bone to make tools during this historical era.
What is the Stone Age?
Put these three developments in the exact order in which they occurred: A) Specialization of labor, B) Food surpluses, C) Barter economy.
What is B) Food surpluses, A) Specialization, C) Barter economy?