Cultural Stages
Early Humans
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Early Civilizations
Life
100
The Stone Age is divided into this number of cultural stages.
What is 3?
100
The earliest humanoids developed on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
Scientists think this animal was the first to be domesticated.
What are dogs?
100
This civilization developed in the area known as the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Before people lived in villages, their clothing was made from this.
What are animal skins?
200
Early humans began farming in this cultural age.
What is the Mesolithic Era or Middle Stone Age?
200
This skull size used to be the standard for being considered to be a "human".
What is 90cc?
200
This area is located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
In Mesopotamian society, this social group kept written records.
What were scribes?
200
After people began to farm, they didn't have to do this anymore in order to find food.
What is follow animal herds to find food?
300
Early humans began settling into villages during this cultural stage.
What is the Neolithic Era or New Stone Age?
300
This body part separated humanoids (primates) from other animals.
What is an opposable thumb?
300
This means that that different individuals are responsible for different jobs.
What is specialization?
300
Because ancient Mesopotamians developed these, they could predict when the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers would flood.
What is a calendar?
300
Before people lived in villages, they found food by this method.
What is hunting and gathering?
400
During this cultural stage, early humans developed fire and began to bury their dead.
What is the Paleolithic Era or Old Stone Age?
400
Last fall scientists published articles about newly found humanoid skeletons. These skeletons were found here.
What is in a cave in Africa?
400
Before writing was developed, civilizations passed their stories from generation to generation by doing this.
What is telling stories?
400
This Mesopotamian leader created a written code of law which followed the old saying, "An eye for an eye".
What was Hammurabi?
400
As people began to settle in villages, they began to do this to get their food.
What is farming?
500
The Ice Age was during this cultural stage.
What is the Paleolithic Era or the Old Stone Age?
500
One of the oldest humanoids fossils is named for this Beatles song.
What is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
500
After dogs, scientists think that these animals were next to be domesticated.
What are goats and sheep?
500
Ancient Sumerians developed this kind of writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
Successful farming created extra food that could be used for this.
What is trade with others?
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