Prehistory
The time before writing and written records were kept.
What is prehistory?
The meaning of 'neo' in Neolithic.
What is new?
People who don't have a permanent home and move around seasonally.
What are nomads?
Wheat, barley, millet, corn, and rice
What are cereal grains?
The objects archaeologists discover and study to learn about prehistoric events.
(Two terms, bonus points for using geography terms.)
What are artifacts and fossils? (material culture and physical remains)
The means by which people met their need for food during the Paleolithic Era.
(Two strategies)
What is hunting and gathering?
The two main reasons that encouraged people to begin producing their own food in the Middle East and China.
What are climate change and population growth?
The older of the two parts of the Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic?
The land bridge that connected Afro-eurasia and the Americas.
What does the suffix "lithic" mean?
Stone
This is the term for taming wild animal and plant species and breeding them for food production.
What is domestication?
The most important event in history. Humans became food producers with the invention of farming and domestication.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Early humans made tools out of these materials.
(Three)
What are animal bones, stone, and wood?
The name of the last epoch, characterized by ice-age animals such as saber-toothed cats, woolly mammoths, and woolly rhinoceroses.
What is the Holocene?
This term describes when new jobs are created because fewer people have to work to make food.
What is labor specialization?
This term describes a person or community that stays in one place.
What is sedentary?
The non-verbal expressions of human communication before the invention of language.
What are cave paintings and art?
A notable physical adaptation that helped humans travel more efficiently.
What is bipedalism?
The invention that marks the end of the Neolithic.
What is the invention of metallurgy during the Bronze Age?
This term is used to describe the spread of ideas, practices, techniques, or technologies.
What is diffusion?