Early Vocabulary
Farming and the domestication of animals
Describe the weather during the Paleolithic Age.
The weather was cold. Ice covered much of the earth.
What was the change in weather? How did it help the Neolithic people with food?
What is it became warmer. With the snow and glaciers melting, the land became more fertile, which helped with farming.
What did people in the Paleolithic Age consider art?
What is cave paintings.
Training or taming wild animals and plants was done in this Age/Era?
What is the 'Neolithic Age'?
Number of times the Earth has experienced an Ice Age
What is '5'?
What does Paleolithic Age mean?
What is Old Stone Age.
What life changing event did Neolithic people begin to do? This is considered the Neolithic Revolution. (turning point)
What is 'farm and agriculture'?
Describe tools in the Paleolithic Age.
What is simple stone tools.
What does Neolithic Age mean?
What is New Stone Age.
What is a large sheet of ice?
Glacier
People during the Paleolithic Age were ______________________. This is how they got their food.
What are hunter gathers.
The word 'Neo' comes from which language?
What is 'Greek' for New?
In the old stone age, everyone was a hunter-gatherer. In the new stone age, there was specialization of jobs.
What is specialization of jobs? What could this lead to?
A person could focus on a job (like basket weaving, making clothes, farming).
This led to a surplus of goods.
People could trade with other cities.
Did early humans live in one place or all over the world?
All over the world due to migration
People during the Paleolithic Age were __________. They moved from place to place rather than settling in one area.
What is nomadic.
What did people in the Paleolithic Age use for shelter?
What are caves.
People during the Neolithic Age were sedentary. They had permanent settlements. What did they live in?
What is mud-brick houses.
Name 2 animals that early man hunted
What are large animals like the mammoth, saber-tooth, or sloths
What important discoveries were made during the Paleolithic Age?
What is 'fire'?
Who was Louis Agassiz?
Who was a 'Swiss scientist who studied glaciers'?
What were the roles of women during the Paleolithic Era?
To care for the children, clean, and take care of the homes
Term to describe the training and adaptation of animals for human use.
What is 'domestication'?
What is specialization?
What is the way people got their jobs. People would specialize in a certain job and only work on that.
Neolithic people domesticated plants and animals. Why was this important? Think about how it helped the people in the villages.
What is by domesticating animals, it helped with farming. It made it easier. For example, animals would pull plows on the farm. By domesticating plants, it gave them clothing, food, and medicine.
Died out..
What is 'extinct'?
Old Stone Age or New Stone Age?? Humans lived in caves or shelters
What is the 'Old Stone Age'?
What type of art did Neolithic people create?
What is wall paintings and pottery.
Where human life all began
What is 'Africa'?
Old Stone Age or New Stone Age?? Hunted and gathered food for the tribe
What is 'Old Stone Age'?
Person who studies artifacts
What is an 'archeologist?
Word used to describe animals moving from one place to another
What is 'migration'?
Major discovery during the Neolithic Era
What is 'Farming and Agriculture'?
People who are nomadic do this..
What is 'move from place to place'?
Two reasons why humans might migrate from place to place
What is 'escape the cold/heat, follow food source'?
Time before written history was recorded
What is 'PreHistory'?
The Earth's wobbled rotation around the sun caused this....
What is an 'Ice Age"?
Name given to one of the first Hominids discovered in Africa.
Who is 'Lucy'?
Discovery during the Neolithic Age that made things go-around and round
What is 'wheel'?
During Ice Ages this caused the seas (level) to fall (decrease)
What is 'frozen ice' or 'frozen sheets of ice' or 'glaciers'?
The word Paleolithic is a Greek word that means...
What is 'old stone age, or age of stone'?
Name 4 resources early man needed to survive
What is 'food, shelter, water, and clothing'?
When land moves away from other land during the time when Pangea existed?
What is 'Continental Drift'?
What does B.C.E. stand for?
What is 'Before Common Era'?
This area was not really affected by the Ice Ages:
a) North America
b) Europe
c) Asia
d) The Caribbean
What is the 'Caribbean'?