Vocabulary
Period in Time
Ways to Communicate
Characteristics of Civilization
100

Scientist who studies objects to learn about past human life

Archaeologist

100

Earliest period of the Stone Age

Paleolithic Era

100

Art that tells us what prehistory was like

Cave Paintings

100

Rivers were established here to help grow crops and provide trade routes

City

200

People who move from place to place to find food.

Nomads

200

Times when glaciers covered much of Earth's land and people needed to relocate

Ice Age

200

Cave Paintings used to depict things such as

Handprints, Oxen, Lions, Bisons, Panthers, Nature, Gods, Goddesses

200

We still have one today; provide protection for the people, their homes, and their food supplies

Government

300

Performing a specific task to be efficient

Specialization

300

Shift from hunting & gathering to farming

Agricultural Revolution

300

Paleolithic people communicated with each other through...

Spoken Language

300

Established because people though that gods and goddesses were responsible for communities survival

Religion

400

A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

Irrigation

400

Latest period of the Stone Age, Agricultural Revolution marked the beginning of this

Neolithic Era

400

Something that was NOT a way to communicate during the Paleolithic Era

Written Language

400

Different burial types happened because of this; men usually higher

Class Structures

500
A complex society

Civilization

500

The period of time following the Neolithic age where people discovered that mixing tin and copper made a stronger material.

The Bronze Age

500

When things started being recorded, they were written using this

Symbols

500

Developed to pass on important information from civilizations; symbols; paintings and scriptures depicting events

Writing & Art

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