Humanity Begins
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
These early humans moved from place to place instead of living in permanent settlements.
What are nomads?
100
A god, goddess, or divine being.
What is a deity?
100
Early humans used ____________ to communicate, tell stories, and share myths.
What are cave paintings?
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What are petroglyphs?
100
Cold conditions during the Ice Age pushed humans to move toward these kinds of regions.
What are warmer regions?
100
These letters mean “Before the Common Era.”
What is BCE?
200
This major change moved humans from hunting and gathering toward farming and settled life.
What is the Agricultural or Neolithic Revolution?
200
The period of human history before written records.
What is prehistory?
200
Neolithic people ______ plants and animals as part of their new settled lifestyle.
What is domesticated?
200
Because sea levels were lower during the Ice Age, this made travel between some continents easier.
What is the exposure of land bridges?
200
These letters mean “the Common Era.”
What is CE?
300
This long movement sent humans from Africa into other continents over roughly 100,000 years.
What is the Great Human Migration?
300
Human-made objects such as tools, buildings, or pottery that help scientists learn about the past.
What are artifacts?
300
Farmers built ______ systems to bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
300
Division of labor allowed people to do this instead of everyone performing the same survival work.
What is specialize in different roles?
300
This roughly 100-foot-high structure was the largest mound of the Mississippian people.
What is Monks Mound?
400
Lower sea levels during the Ice Age exposed these, allowing humans to travel into distant places.
What are land bridges?
400
The behaviors, beliefs, laws, customs, and way of life shared by a society.
What is culture?
400
When different people specialized in different jobs, early societies were using ______ of labor.
What is division?
400
A more sedentary lifestyle gave people more time beyond basic survival, helping some people become these skilled makers.
What are artisans?
400
Stories and knowledge passed down by speaking rather than writing are known by this term.
What is oral tradition?
500
This transition from mobile hunting and gathering to settled agriculture marks the change between these two major eras.
What are the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras?
500
This belief said that a monarch received the authority to rule from a divine source.
What is divine right?
500
Instead of using money, people could exchange goods through ______.
What is barter?
500
Steadier food supplies helped create permanent villages, specialized work, crafts, and this economic activity.
What is trade or barter?
500
This alliance eventually joined six Indigenous nations.
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?