History Detectives
The period of time when people didn’t know how to write down their history.
What is prehistory?
During prehistory, people developed the ability to do this.
What is use fire?
The study of Earth’s surface and the people who live there.
What is geography?
A worker who makes skilled crafts by hand.
What is an artisan?
The written events of people.
What is history?
This is how people in the Old Stone Age got food.
They hunted and gathered wild plants.
Soil that is rich and good for growing crops is called this.
What is fertile?
A society with cities, a government, and workers who have different jobs.
What is a civilization?
Stories passed down by word of mouth.
What are oral traditions?
This new invention let people in the New Stone Age grow their own food.
What is farming?
Giving the land water from another place using a network of canals.
What is irrigation?
When there is a food surplus, this is what happens to the population.
It grows rapidly.
Scientists who study objects to learn about people from the past who could not write down their history.
Who are archaeologists?
In the New Stone Age, people also started to do this with animals.
What is domesticate animals?
Having more food than you need.
What is a food surplus?
This person would most likely have spread new ideas in the ancient world because they moved from place to place.
Who is a trader?
Archaeologists use these, like the iceman’s clothes, to learn about people from long ago.
What are clues?
Explain the similarities and differences between the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age.
Old Stone Age: hunted and gathered food, with tools of bone and stone. New Stone Age: still hunted, but also grew their own food and started to domesticate animals.
Farmers need these two things to get a food surplus.
A dependable source of water and fertile soil.
Explain how a food surplus affects the growth of cities.
People can do jobs other than growing food, so they make new inventions and build a bigger city. The population also grows, so there are more workers.