Early History
People who study the people and events of the past.
Who are historians?
A diagram that shows the order of events within a period of time.
What is a timeline?
A compass rose on a map tells you the relative location of places: north, south, east , and west. These are called.
What are cardinal directions?
The main activity for hunter-gathers.
What is searching for food?
The number one reason that people began to stay in one place.
What is farming?
Historians divide history into blocks of time called.
What is an era?
The study of the earth and its people, places, and natural surroundings, or environment.
What is geography?
The lines that measure north to south on a globe.
What is latitude?
The tools and methods crafted by Paleolithic people to perform a task.
What is technology?
The taming of animals for meat, milk, and wool.
What is domesticate?
The years before the birth of Jesus.
What is B.C./B.C.E./ Before Christ or Before Common Era?
Period of time that means "Old Stone".
What is Paleolithic?
The lines that measure east to west on a globe?
What is longitude?
Early hunting weapons.
What is bow and arrows, stones, and fish hooks?
Growing more food than they could eat.
What is a food surplus?
The years after the birth of Jesus.
What are C.E. or Common Era?
People who move from place to place in search of food.
What are nomadic people?
A map that shows land and water features.
What is a physical map?
The biggest discovery that made life much less difficult for the Paleolithic people.
What is fire?
A type of economy that doesn't use money.
What is a bartered economy or goods and services?
A.D stands for.
What is anno domini, "in the year of the Lord"?
G.R.A.P.E.S of a civilization.
What is geography, religion, achievements, political, economic, and social structure?
A map key uses these to represent important information located on the map.
What are symbols?
Long periods of extreme cold that affected all of Earth.
What are the Ice Ages?
Jobs that people specialized in once everyone wasn't needed for growing food.
What is a weaver, pottery maker, weapons/tools maker, or builder?