Time and Dates
This abbreviation is a religious abbreviation and is used to label years before year 1
BC (Before Christ)
Name one main food source for nomadic hunter-gatherer groups.
Examples: wild plants, berries, nuts, fish, wild animals.
What does "domestication" mean when talking about plants or animals?
Domestication = taming and breeding plants/animals for human use.
Name two of the key characteristics of a civilization.
culture, stable food supply, government, technology, religion, writing, social structure.
What is Culture?
Culture = the shared beliefs, customs, arts, and ways of life of a group of people.
This abbreviation is the secular equivalent of AD.
CE = Common Era
List one basic hunting weapon used by early hunter-gatherers.
Examples: spears, bows and arrows, clubs, axe, sickle.
Name one plant and one animal that were commonly domesticated in early agricultural societies.
Examples: wheat, barley, rice; sheep, goats, cattle.
A community with cities, government, and specialized workers.
Civilization
What is a "decade"?
Decade = 10 years (example: the 1990s are the decade from 1990–1999).
Historians write "c." before a year to mean this word that shows the date is approximate.
Circa (about/approximately)
Give one purpose fire served in hunter-gatherer societies besides cooking.
Examples: warmth, protection from predators, light, making tools (hardening wood), social gathering.
What is a "barter economy"? Give a brief definition.
Barter economy = trading goods and services directly without money.
What role did writing play in early civilizations?
Writing recorded laws, keeping trade records, and preserving stories/history.
What are early humans who moved from place to place with no home called?
Nomadic hunter-gatherers
How many years are in one century?
100 years.
Describe one reason hunter-gatherers moved from place to place (why were they nomadic?)
Because they followed food sources and seasonal resources; they moved when food ran out.
When you have more food than what you need, you have what?
Food Surplus
Which feature of civilization is a set of shared beliefs about the world?
religion
The era in which tools were first developed is known as
The Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)
How many years have passed between 876 BC and 1741 AD?
2617 years
The earliest tools/weapons were made from this.
Stone
Exchanging milk for chickens is an example of what?
Bartering
What civilization characteristic is the use of skills and tools to meet practical needs?
Technology
This era used the following technologies: the domestication of plants and animals, settling into villages, a barter economy, and farming
Neolithic Era