Time Designations
This abbreviation means “Before Christ” and is used for dates before the birth of Jesus.
What is BC?
People who moved from place to place in search of food were called this.
What are nomads?
What is the name of the big change when people began farming?
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
A civilization must have this in order to keep order and make decisions.
What is a government?
This abbreviation stands for “Common Era” and is a non-religious version of AD.
What is CE?
Hunter-gatherers used these early materials to make tools.
What are stone, bone, and wood?
What does “domestication” mean?
What is taming animals and growing plants for human use?
This characteristic of civilization includes shared music, language, and traditions.
What is culture?
This Latin abbreviation means “in the year of our Lord.”
What is AD (Anno Domini)?
Name one use of fire in hunter-gatherer life.
What is cooking, warmth, or protection?
Why did people start living in permanent settlements?
What is because farming allowed them to stay in one place?
This social feature separates people into groups like farmers, rulers, and slaves.
What is social structure?
A historian says an artifact is from c. 3500 BCE. What does the “c.” mean?
What is “circa,” meaning “around” that time?
What kind of shelter did early humans often use?
What are caves, tents, or huts made from animal hides and branches?
What do we call it when people trade goods instead of using money?
What is a barter economy?
This invention helped people record laws, stories, and trade records
What is writing?
If a date changes from 800 BCE to 500 BCE, is time moving forward or backward?
What is forward in time (because the numbers are getting smaller in BCE)?
How did the tools of hunter-gatherers help them survive?
What is by helping them hunt, gather food, and build shelter?
How did food surpluses lead to new jobs like toolmakers and weavers?
What is because not everyone had to farm, so people could specialize in other work?
List three features that make a society a civilization.
What are any three of: culture, government, religion, social structure, stable food supply, technology, writing?