Pre-History
Early Hominids
The Stone Age
Beginnings of Civilization
Features of Civilizations
100
These are made by humans and used by historians to learn details of the past.
What is an artifact?
100
This group of hominids were nicknamed "handy man" because they were the first to make tools roughly 2 million years ago.
What is homo habilis?
100
This was the way humans lived during the Paleolithic period.
What is nomadic?
100
When a farmer had more food than needed.
What is a surplus?
100
In many early cases Priests had the greatest power in this feature of civilizations.
What is organized government?
200
This is the name of the time period before writing was invented.
What is pre-history?
200
This group of hominids also arose around 2 million years ago and were known as "upright man" because of their erect walking style.
What is homo erectus?
200
This is the belief that spirits might reside in animals, objects, or dreams, and cave paintings are used as evidence to support this idea.
What is animism?
200
The geographic feature that was near where many of the first civilizations arose.
What are river valleys?
200
This characteristic included scribes, pictographs, and was used to record amounts of grain collected, and precise rituals and prayers.
What is writing?
300
This is the study of the origins and development of people and their societies.
What is anthropology.
300
This is the hominid group to which modern humans belong to.
What is Homo sapiens?
300
These are two other names for the New Stone Age.
What are Neolithic and Agricultural Revolution?
300
This was the main feature of civilizations.
What are cities?
300
This characteristic placed slaves at the bottom.
What is social classes?
400
This is the anthropologist couple that discovered footprints millions of years old in Olduvai Gorge.
Who are Mary and Louis Leakey?
400
This group of Homo sapiens disappeared roughly 30,000-50,000 years ago and lived mostly in Europe and western Asia.
What are the Neanderthals?
400
This was the control of plants and animals in the New Stone Age.
What is domestication?
400
These civilizations were built away from river valleys and instead on mountains or swamp lands.
What are civilizations in the Americas?
400
This characteristic was typically polytheistic in the early civilizations.
What is religion?
500
The man who discovered "Lucy" in 1974, a 3 million year old hominid skeleton.
Who is Donald Johanson?
500
This is the theory that states where the human origins began and then spread out to the rest of the globe.
What is "out of Africa" theory?
500
This city was one of the first Neolithic villages located in modern day Turkey and had an estimated population of over 6,000 people.
What is Catalhuyuk?
500
This relies on habit, custom, or ritual and tens not to change over time.
What is a traditional economy?
500
This is the spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
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