Defenitions
A person who moves from place to place to find resources
Nomad
What is a primary source?
Firsthand evidence from the time or event being studied.
What were the two main ways Paleolithic people obtained food?
Hunting and Gathering
What was the major change that defined the Neolithic Revolution?
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming and animal domestication.
A perspective that can influence how information is presented.
bias
Farming or growing crops
Agriculture
What is a secondary source?
A later interpretation or analysis of the past.
Name two benefits of controlling fire during the Paleolithic Era.
Fire provided warmth, protection from predators, and a way to cook food. Any two.
What type of lifestyle did farming help people establish?
A settled lifestyle with permanent villages.
A challenge or problem that has been confronted by people across multiple time periods and regions
enduring issue
Taming animals or cultivating plants for human use
Domestication
A podcast episode discussing how stone tools were made
primary or secondary?
secondary
Why did Paleolithic people frequently move from place to place?
They followed migrating animal herds and searched for seasonal plants, food, and water.
What major climate change helped lead to the Neolithic Revolution?
The end of the Ice Age.
What is job specialization?
When people focus on one particular job or skill instead of doing many different jobs.
More food than is needed
Surplus
A bronze cooking pot unearthed from an ancient Shang Dynasty ruin
primary or secondary?
primary
What is another name for the Paleolithic Era
Old Stone Age
Name TWO negative effects of the Neolithic Revolution.
Less varied diets
More infectious diseases
Harder, repetitive physical labor
Increased social inequality
Greater wealth differences
10,000 B.C.E
is a time or an event in which a significant and lasting change occurs
turning point
What makes a secondary source useful for a historian studying a historical topic?
A. It guarantees that there is zero personal bias or point of view involved.
B. It replaces the need to ever look at archaeological artifacts or raw data.
C. It provides a firsthand physical witness account from the actual day of the event.
D. It offers an analysis, interpretation, or synthesis of multiple primary sources by an expert.
D
What was the primary reason human groups lived a nomadic lifestyle during the Paleolithic Era?
A)They had to constantly move to follow migratory animal herds and seasonal wild plant cycles for survival.
B)They were searching for hidden industrial gold and silver mines to accumulate wealth.
C)Their strict religious laws strictly forbade anyone from staying in one place for more than a single week.
D)They were constantly fleeing from massive volcanic eruptions that covered the entire planet.
A
How did farming lead to the development of social classes?
Farming created food surpluses, so not everyone had to farm. People developed specialized jobs, and those who controlled more land, food, and resources gained more wealth and power, creating social classes.
What is prehistory?
The time period before writing/recording of events.