Vocabulary
This term refers to the long periods of extreme cold that affected Earth
What is the Ice Age?
This is another name for the Paleolithic Age
What is the Old Stone Age?
This is another name for the Neolithic Age.
What is the New Stone Age?
This metal is made by mixing copper and tin
What is bronze?
This is a major effect of the Agricultural Revolution
What is constant food supply leading to population growth? What are specializations? What is trade? What are permanent homes?
This term describes a type of government that is led by a king or queen.
Monarchy
People who moved from place to place in search of food were called this
What are nomads?
This region had the biggest and earliest known Neolithic communities.
What is Southwest Asia?
This term describes tools and methods used to perform tasks
What is technology?
Early civilizations used these holy places for worship
What are shrines?
This term means training for a particular job or skill.
What is specialization?
In the Paleolithic Age, people mainly did this to get food.
What is hunting and gathering?
At Çatalhüyük, people entered their houses through here
What is the roof?
The discovery of bronze was important because it was stronger than this metal
What is copper?
During the Ice Age, lower ocean levels created these natural land formations that allowed people and animals to migrate between continents
land bridges
This word means to tame animals to live with humans for human advantage
What is domesticate?
These are ways the discovery of fire changed Paleolithic life
What are providing warmth, light, cooking food, and protection from wild animals?
This is the main change in the Neolithic Age that separates it from the Paleolithic Age.
Shifting from hunting and gathering to systemic agriculture
Early humans used this material to make their sharpest cutting tools
What is flint?
This is the term referring to a big change that has a huge effect on how people in a society live
What is a revolution?
This is the organized growing of food on a regular schedule.
What is systematic agriculture?
This is the location where cave paintings from the Paleolithic Age were found in 1940.
Lascaux, France
Between present-day Israel and Jordan is where this early civilization was located.
What is Jericho?
Early humans discovered that this certain stone gave off sparks when struck against another rock
What is iron pyrite?
This is what men mostly did in a Paleolithic society
What is hunting large animals?