Artifacts
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
Bronze Age Civilizations
Timelines
100

What materials are the earliest tools made from?

stone & bone

100

What is the official name for the Old Stone Age?

Paleolithic Era
100

What is the official name for the New Stone Age?

Neolithic Era

100

What elements led to the discovery of bronze?

copper + tin + heat

100

What does BCE stand for?

Before Common Era

200

What evidence shows the meaning of animals to early people?

Cave Art

200

What word describes the way people lived and moved from place to place?

Nomadic
200

What two factors led to the Agricultural Revolution?

More People (overpopulation)

Climate Change (end of the last ice age)

200

What word describes human changes to the landscape?

Cultivation

200

When did human migration reach all inhabited continents?

15,000 BCE

300

What were some of the earliest artifacts that showed humans tracking time?

lunar calendars

300

What time span was the Old Stone Age?

2.5 million BCE - 8000 BCE

300

What time span was the New Stone Age?

8000 BCE - 3800 BCE

300

What helped people understand why and how things were the way they were?

Religion

300
When did writing emerge?

3300 BCE

400

What artifact shows that early humans cared about beauty and wealth?

Jewelry

400

What evidence is there that early humans had entertainment?

musical instruments, bone flutes

400

What type of geographic location did early farming civilizations develop in?

River Valleys

400

What are two innovations besides bronze that changed life in the Bronze Age?

the Wheel and the Plow

400

When did the neolithic age begin?

8000 BCE

500

What was used in burial sites or graves to color bodies red?

Ochre

500

What professions help us understand more about early humans? (2)

Anthropologists & Archaeologists

500

What word describes how people lived when they formed permanent settlements?

sedentary

500

What word describes the organization of people in early civilizations?

Hierarchy

500

What vocab word describes when things are in order of what they happen?

chronological

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