(1) Early Humans Review
This time period began after the Paleolithic Era and means New Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic time period?
Most early humans settled down near these geographic features.
What is water such as rivers valleys?
During this time period, people hunted large game and gathered berries, nuts, and other food items.
What was the Paleolithic Era, or Old Stone Age?
Early humans showed scenes of their life and world (such as hunting) by creating images of these.
What are cave paintings?
During the Neolithic Era, humans learned how to preform ______ which was a MAJOR world turning point for all of humanity.
What is Agriculture?
Name 2 negatives of living of the agricultural revolution where people and animals live close to one another
War and diseases?
Early humans began making new tools and discovering new methods to help them perform tasks which is called this.
What is technology?
Early humans made this discovery in the early to middle Paleolithic Era which forever changed their life t that time.
What is fire?
Early humans once they build permanent homes, made their shelters from what type of material.
What are mud-bricks, clay, animal waste, stones, resources available in their region of the world, straw, hay?
Early humans (Paleolithic Era) were found and lived in these types of shelters.
What are caves?
These are weapons, tools, and other items made by humans to study.
What are artifacts?
During the early to middle Neolithic Era, humans continued to make weapons and tools from this type of material.
What are stones?
This is the area of the world with the two earliest known civilizations.
What is the Middle East (fertile crescent or Mesopotamia) / Africa (Egypt)?
Name two ways fire changed the lives of Early Humans.
What is they used fire to heat, cook, for light, to scare away animals, and to smoke meat?
Hominids and Early humans traveled from Africa to all around the world. Why
What are climate change, droughts, floods, lack of resources, over hunting and gathering.
What are 3 significant changes of the Agricultural Revolution. It can be all positive, all negative, or a little bit of both
Positive: Living in permanent homes, job specialization, surplus of food, population growth, communities being established, leaders rising, governments forming
Negative: Social inequality, Diseases increase, conflict and war over resources, poor land for crop growth