Hunter-Gatherers
Vocab Terms
Pastoral & Farming Societies
Ancient Societies
Miscellaneous
100

What role did men and women both fill in hunter-gatherer societies?

Leaders

100

What is a water source in the middle of the desert?

Oasis

100

What is the word for a person who has no settled home and travels from place to place?

Nomad

100

What was Jericho known for that protected their society and water source?

Thick walls

100

What land is known as the "land between rivers"?

Mesopotamia

200

What continent did hunter-gatherers begin on?

Africa

200

What are tools/objects made by people?

Artifacts

200

This is the process of redirecting water from rivers/lakes to crops.

Irrigation

200

What happened to the settlement of Jericho?

It was abandoned

200

What was the black rock used as cutting tools and mirrors?

Obsidian

300

What was the average lifespan for hunter-gatherers?

20 years

300

What is society's unique way of doing things?

Culture

300

What is the word for breeding/raising animals for food and resources?

Domestication

300

What building did Ur build as a stepped tower to their gods?

Ziggurat

300

How did the people of Çatalhöyük enter their homes?

Through the roof

400

What did hunter-gatherers use to make spears, needles, and hooks?

Animal bones

400

What is the word for an animal or plant that has died out?

Extinct

400

What made pastoral societies different from hunter-gatherers?

Raising animals/livestock

400

Where was Çatalhöyük located?

Modern-day Turkey
400

What area of the world was the Fertile Crescent in?

Middle East/Africa

500

What is the Paleolithic Period known as? (Hint: it has to do with rocks!)

Old Stone Age

500

What was used to throw spears longer distances?

Atlatl

500

What is the science of growing crops and raising animals known as?

Agriculture

500

Where was Ur located?

Modern-day Iraq

500

What two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia?

Tigris and Euphrates

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