Chapter 2.1
This is the term for moving from place to place in search of food
What is nomadic? (Nomads is also acceptable)
This change to the earth ocurred around 14,000 years ago. It caused ice sheets to melt, increased rainfall, and covered land bridges with water.
What is the warming of the earth?
The shift to agricultural ushered in a new period in human history. This period was known for humans building farming villages for the first time.
What is the Neolithic Age?
This group of scientists analyze rocks and fossils to learn about the past.
What are geologists?
This is the main character of Schooled
Who is Cap Anderson?
Early humans adopted various strategies to deal with new environments. List one.
What are: Creating needles to sew warm clothes out of animal skins.
Taking shelter in caves for protection from winter weather.
Creating shelters from wood, bone and animal skins.
Humans tamed this animal for hunting and protection.
What are dogs?
What is the Fertile Cresent?
These experts study x-ray images to look beneath the surface of objects to show what the eye cannot see.
What are radiologists?
This event happened after school last Friday.
What is the school dance?
Early humans created various weapons to help them hunt more effectively. List two examples.
What are: Bows and arrows, barbed harpoons, spears.
The warmer climate provided certain areas with such abundant resources that some hunter-gathers decided to do this for the first time.
What is settle down in one place?
Neolithic people made various tools to help make farming easier. List two examples.
What are: Hoes for digging the soil, plows for preparing the land to plant seeds, curved sickles that cut through grain and millstones that ground grain into flour.
Our history textbook is an example of this type of source
This is the name of the teacher that is closest to Mr. Shannon's room. Hint: He cannot beat Mr. Shannon in 1-1 basketball.
Who is Mr. Nick?
Explain the impact the changing climate had on hunter-gatherers.
They followed around hers of megafauna as the animals migrated with the season. This caused humans to enter new environments, such as crossing into North America as they walked across the Beringia land bridge.
List two benefits that domesticated animals such as cows, pigs, and goats provided.
What are: providing meat, milk, wool and carrying heavy loads and pulling heavy carts.
Write an example for how early humans used domesticated animals to make new tools more efficient.
What is tying cattle to the plows and leading the animals up and down in rows. This turned over the soil and provided animal manure, which fertilized the land.
What is a primary source? (A document or object that was created by someone who witnessed or lived through a historical event).
In basketball, this is the number of points awarded for a three-point shot.
What is three points?
This time of the year made conflict between early humans more likely due to the lack of resources.
Cold periods made conflicts more likely. During warm periods, it's likely that human interactions between tribes were more friendly, sharing their technology and cultural ideas.
Write a sentence that explains how an estuary was a "perfect" place for early humans to live.
The combination of fresh and salt water, as well as land provided people with a year-round supply of food.
This type of history is how humanity first passed down accounts of events to generations, often in the form of stories or songs.
What is oral history?
What is World War I?