Lesson 1 Vocab
This means people who regularly move from place to place to survive.
What is nomad/nomads?
Special buildings that were holy places.
What are shrines?
Paleolithic people survived by doing this.
What is hunting and gathering?
Some historian consider this the most important event human history.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
This emerged in the new civilizations to help people explain their lives.
What are religions?
The earliest part of the Stone Age is called the Paleolithic Age, which means this in Greek.
What is "old stone"?
What is the Greek meaning of Neolithic?
What is "new stone"?
What kind of relationship dynamic do scientists believe existed between men and women during this time?
What is equal relationship?
Neolithic people settled in villages that were near two specific things. Name one.
What are fields or water sources (rivers)?
This is where the doors on the mud-brick houses in Çatalhüyük were located.
Where is the roof?
These were long periods of extreme cold that affected all of Earth.
What are ice ages?
This is a government led by a king or a queen.
What is a monarchy?
Life became less difficult for Paleolithic people once they discovered this.
What is fire/how to make fire?
Since an abundant amount of food was being produced, fewer people were needed in the fields so people began to do this.
Rapid population growth causes resources such as this to be used up quickly, which resulted in desert-like conditions to spread.
Tools and methods to perform tasks are called this.
What is technology?
People did this to animals so that they could be used for human use.
What is domesticate?
As the water level of the ocean was lowered, this was exposed connecting Asia and North America.
What is a land bridge?
The real change in the Neolithic Age was this.
What is the shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture?
Name 2 of the 4 great river valley civilizations.
What are Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China?
Early people did this through sounds and physical gestures until language was developed.
What is communicate?
This is the term that describes growing food on a regular basis.
What is systematic agriculture?
Name one reason the books mentions why historians believe early artists chose to make cave paintings?
What is painting an animal would bring hunters good luck, recording the groups history or to simply be enjoyed?
Bronze became widely used between 3000 and 1200 BC. What two elements is bronze made of?
What is copper and tin?
What is provided warmth, provided light, scared away animals, chase animals to be killed, or gathered around to share stories and cook?