Terms
The Stone Age
Neanderthal/Cro-magnon
Civilizations
All about writing
100
Objects left behind by ancient people.
What are artifacts?
100
Stone Age people who moved from place to place.
What is a nomad?
100
Short thick body with powerful limbs.
What is neanderthal?
100
The Nile River Valley
What is Egypt?
100
The material used by Egyptians to record their data.
What is papyrus?
200
Scientist who study ancient civilizations.
What are archaeologists?
200
Where most Stone Age people lived.
What is a cave?
200
Used fire.
What is both?
200
The Yellow River.
What is China?
200
Used soft clay tablets with a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
300
An organized society with evidence of art and technology.
What is civilization?
300
Wepons and tools were made of this material.
What is stone?
300
Buried their dead with no evidence of tradition.
What is Neanderthal?
300
Iraq
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Used symbols to represent sounds and words.
What is hieroglyphics?
400
The period of time before man learned to write.
What is prehistory?
400
4.5 million or 10,000 years.
What is the age of the Earth?
400
Evidence of art.
What is Cro-magnon?
400
Pakistan
What is the Indus River Valley.
400
Used pictures to convey actions.
What is cuneiform
500
Part man that walked upon his back feet.
What is a hominid?
500
A common name given to Stone Age people.
What is cavemen?
500
Domesticated the horse.
What is Cro-magnon?
500
Where civilization began.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The stone that was found that heled unlock the mysteries of hieroglyphics.
What is The Rosetta Stone?
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