Stone Age
What were the two eras that make up the stone age?
Neolithic and Paleolithic
What does agriculture mean?
Double Jeopardy: What does domesticate mean?
Agriculture: The business of farming, growing crops and raising animals
Domesticate: To train a wild animal to be useful to a human
The first few human civilizations developed in regions where people found the resources they needed to survive.
What would be one of the biggest resources needed to start a civilization?
Double Jeopardy: What is a resource?
Water
Resource: Something that can be used to fulfill a need
2, Prefix and Suffix. Prefix goes at the beginning and suffix goes at the end.
What was the the defining traits of the Paleolithic era dan the Neolithic era?
Paleolithic people hunted and gathered
Neolithic people made their own food
Why was farming more advantageous compared to hunting and gathering?
It provided a stable food supply
What and why was the Fertile Crescent important?
Double Jeopardy if you can name where it is at
The fertile crescent was important because many neolithic people settled around this area because the land was rich with fertile soil.
This was in Southeast Asia, Middle East, just east of the Mediterranean Sea.
In other word its modern day: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Kuwait
If someone said “I could feel the walls closing in around me”
What would that mean?
The character feels trapped, overwhelmed, or anxious.
What does nomad mean and what era were many people nomads?
Nomads mean people that moved from place to place and this era was prominent in the Paleolithic era.
Why did people in the neolithic age live together in larger groups compared with earlier times?
They could grow enough food to support more people
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River
What does the word connation mean?
What advancement ended the Neolithic era...
The advancement of metal tools allowed us to evolve past the stone age.
What were some of the early animals that they used to for meat, milk and to pull plows.
(Must be referenced from the textbook)
Sheep, goats and cattle for meat
Goats and cattle for milk
Mules for carrying heavy loads and to pull plows
Turkey
When Cronus attempted to eat Zeus, Cronus’s hubris was a veil that kept him from realizing he had been tricked.
What does this sentence mean?
Cronus's excessive pride prevented him from seeing the truth—that he had been tricked into swallowing a rock instead of Zeus.
What five major changes made the Neolithic Age so different from the Paleolithic Age?
1. Agriculture lead to a more stable food supply, compared to hunter and gatherers
2. They made permanent shelters
3. They could establish large communities
4. They were able to gain more free time and specialize in certain jobs
5. They would begin to trade resources
Farmers, weavers, basket makers, toolmakers, and traders.
What crops did early Americans grow?
What crops did early Europeans grow?
What crops did early Asians grow?
Corn, Wheat and Rice
For millennia, the sullen Hades has watched over the Underworld skeptically, like a guard protecting a door that no one is supposed to pass through.
Is this a metaphor or a simile?
Also, what does that sentence mean?
It is a simile. Hades is compared to someone who can see the living world but can never be part of it.