Paleolithic Era
The ability to cook, survive in cold temperatures, have a source of light, and protection from predators
What are the ways life changed with the discovery of fire?
The agricultural revolution
What is the main event that caused the beginning of the neolithic period?
Before Christ and Before common Era
What are the definitions for B.C and BCE on a timeline?
being trained to do a particular kind of work
What is specialization?
The Old Stone Age
What is another name for the Paleolithic Era?
By hunting food and gathering berries, nuts, plants, and roots
What are the ways Paleolithic Man obtained his food?
Making jewelry, making pottery, weaving baskets, weaving cloth, making tools for farming like hoes, sickles, millstones for grinding flour, making copper/bronze tools
What are examples of specialization during the Neolithic period?
"Anno Domini" - In the year of our Lord, and Common Era
What are the definitions of AD and CE on a timeline?
The way of life for a group of people like hunting for meat, making spears out of stone, using simple language, eats berries, nuts, and roots
What is culture and what was Early man's culture like?
The population increased
What was the result of having a steady food supply on the population?
Stone Spears, Stone axes, scraping tools, baskets, bows and arrows, fish hooks
What are examples of technology from the Paleolithic period?
People could settle in one place, growth of towns, greater security, specialization, surplus of food
What are advantages of the Agricultural Revolution?
An extra supply of food
What is a surplus?
An extra supply of something such as food
What is surplus?
lack of resources, pollution, disease spread easily
What are some disadvantages of the Agricultural Revolution?
The Ice age began and the climate was colder. The ice exposed dry land connecting Asia and North America. People crossed and migrated south to warmer climates.
What is the reason early man migrated to North America?
Permanent shelters
lived in communities
What are the ways agriculture changed the way people got shelter during the Neolithic age?
The higher the number the more recent it is.
What is the way to read a CE date on a timeline?
To move from one place to another
What is migrate?
It is a primary source because it was created by people that lived in that time period
What is the type of source for cave paintings?
They hunted, they made tools and weapons , they respected the animals they hunted.
What are things we can learn from cave art about Early man?
by weaving plant fibers or weaving sheep's wool
What are the ways Neolithic people made clothing?
the higher the number, the earlier it happened in history
What is the way to read a BCE number on a timeline?
A period in pre-history when stone tools were used as well as agriculture
What is the Neolithic Era?
agriculture allowed people to stay in one place - people lived together and towns began to grow as trade increased
What is the connection between agriculture and the growth of towns?