Exploring Pre-History
Early Humans
The Agricultural Revolution
Characteristics of a civilization
River Valley Civilzations
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The term for pre-historic humanoid creatures excavated by archaeologists.

What are Hominids?

100
Individuals with powerful jaws, reclined chins, low forward head, and heavy eyebrow ridges.
Who were the Early Humans?
100
During this age, people used bows and arrows, fishook, and spears made out of bone.
What is the Mesolithic Age (Middle-Stone Age)?
100

A complex culture that has a surplus of food, towns, and division of labor.

What is a civilization?

100
A mixture of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
200

These items provide clues about life in early civilizations.

What are artifacts?

200

The period that under went extremely cold weather.

What is the Ice Age?

200
During this age, people began to domesticate animals and develop agriculture.
What is the Neolithic Age?
200
People that have a surplus of a food, towns with a form of government, and a division of labor.
What are characteristics of a civilization?
200
The age where copper and tin were mixed to develop better tools.
What is the Bronze Age?
300

The set of beliefs, knowledge, and patterns of living that a group of people develop.

What is culture?

300
The scientific name for the first human species.
What is a Homosapien?
300
This process, led to the ready supply of meat and animal products for early humans.
What is domestication?
300
People specializing in different jobs.
What is the division of labor?
300
The age where iron tools are developed.
What is Iron Age?
400

Period of pre-history that begins with the development of stone tools.

What is the Stone Age?

400
The name of humans found in the Europe and Southeast Asia during the Stone Age.
What is the Neanderthal?
400
This revolution, ended worn-on lifestyle and led to the creation of civilization.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
400

The spread of ideas and other aspects of culture from one area to another.

What is cultural diffusion?

400
Explanation of forces of nature and aspects of human life.
What is religion?
500

The name of the skeleton found by Johanson, named after a Beetles song.

Who is Lucy?

500
The humans that migrated to Northern Asia and Australia. These humans made better tools and weapons than the counter-parts, the neanderthals.
Who were the Cro-magnon?
500
This was the age in World History, when people domesticated plants and animals and learned to farm.
What is the Neolithic Agriculture Revolution?
500
A type of calendar that lasts 354 days a year.
What is a lunar calendar?
500
Metal used tools and jewelry before the Bronze Age.
What is copper?
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