Paleolithic
During the Paleolithic Era, humans survived mainly by hunting animals and doing this.
What is gathering wild plants/food?
This major development began around 10,000 years ago and changed how humans got their food.
What is farming/agriculture?
This era is also called the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This is another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
This lifestyle required people to move from place to place in search of food.
What is the Paleolithic lifestyle?
Paleolithic humans were nomads. Define Nomads.
What is they moved from place to place instead of living permanently in one location?
The process of taming animals and keeping them as pets or on a farm.
What is domestication?
This era is also called the New Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This describes soil that is good for growing plants and crops.
What is fertile?
This lifestyle allowed people to stay in one place and build permanent homes.
What is the Neolithic lifestyle?
Name ONE important strategy Paleolithic humans used to survive.
What is toolmaking, cooperation, planning/migration, using fire safely, or storytelling?
Unlike Paleolithic nomads, many Neolithic people began living in these permanent communities.
What are towns, villages, cities?
Nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering, and cave art are characteristics of this era.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
A system where individuals focus on specific jobs (like pottery, weaving, or toolmaking) instead of everyone farming.
What is Specialization of Labor?
Give ONE major difference between how Paleolithic and Neolithic people obtained food.
What is Paleolithic people hunted and gathered, while Neolithic people farmed and domesticated animals?
Paleolithic humans created paintings and engravings in places such as caves for THIS type of purpose.
What is a ritual, religious, spiritual, or symbolic purpose?
Because people could produce a steady food supply, some Neolithic people could specialize in jobs such as making tools and weapons, which led to these two things.
What is specialization and trade?
Farming, domesticated animals, permanent homes, and villages are characteristics of this era.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This word describes a body of water Neolithic civilizations settled by.
What is a river?
A steady food supply changed Neolithic society in these two ways.
What is it allowed people to settle permanently and specialize in different types of work?
A Paleolithic group needs to survive without modern technology. Explain why both toolmaking and cooperation would help them survive.
What is tools help with tasks such as obtaining food or protecting themselves, while cooperation allows people to work together and support the group?
According to the lesson, the Neolithic Revolution make civilization possible by...
What is permanent settlements allowed villages, towns, and cities to develop, while people could specialize in different types of work?
A group stops moving from place to place and begins growing crops and raising animals in one location in this era.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
A change from hunting and gathering to farming and permanent settlements is an example of this because it dramatically changed how humans lived.
What is a turning point?
Explain why the Neolithic Revolution is considered a turning point in history. Give at least TWO changes it caused.
What is it changed humans from primarily nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled farmers and led to permanent settlements, specialization, trade, and eventually cities/civilization?