From Old to New
This period began about 2 million years ago and lasted until about 8000 B.C.E.
What is the Paleolithic Age (or Old Stone Age)?
In many areas of the world, people used these packed together to build houses that were round or rectangular in shape.
What are mud bricks?
Strong stone walls protected this Neolithic town.
What is Jericho?
Because of this "invention," people had some control over their food supply for the first time.
What is agriculture?
To make water boil for cooking in clay-lined pits, people dropped these into the water.
What are hot stones?
This period began when people started to farm and produce their own food.
What is the Neolithic Age (or New Stone Age)?
This black glass found at volcanic mountains was used by craftspeople to make knife blades, arrowheads, and mirrors.
What is obsidian?
Besides farmers, the townspeople of Catal Hoyuk worked as weavers, basket makers, traders, and these.
Who are toolmakers?
The ability to raise food by farming allowed people to settle in these.
What are permanent shelters?
Traders rode these animals when crossing deserts to find resources.
What are donkeys?
These two developments—the growing of crops and the domestication of animals—are called this.
What is agriculture?
Some people rubbed this red ore on their lips and cheeks to make them redder.
What is hematite?
Clothing makers developed a way to spin and weave these natural fibers into comfortable cloth.
What are wool and linen?
Focusing on one job (specialization) gave people the opportunity to do this.
What is improve doing that job, work better.
In the town of Catal Hoyuk, farmers learned to grow more than 14 kinds of these.
What are food plants?
People who had to move often in order to follow wild animal herds or find new plants to eat.
What are nomads?
Historians think that people may have climbed these to reach openings high in the walls and enter the house.
What are ladders?
House builders added special rooms to honor these.
Who are the gods and goddesses?
Living in communities made it possible for people to organize themselves more efficiently and divide up this specific job that was necessary for living.
What is farming or producing food.
Stoneworkers learned to polish stones to make jewelry and these shiny items.
What are mirrors?
Many Neolithic settlements were located in this region east of the Mediterranean Sea, where the land was good for growing crops
What is the Fertile Crescent?
These animals helped carry heavy loads and pull plows.
What are mules?
People in Neolithic communities had the time and tools to create works of art, like this item that may have been used to carry water.
What is pottery?
The growth of trade allowed people to make use of more resources and brought them into contact with people from distant places, helping to spread these.
What are ideas and knowledge?
Traders sailed ships on this sea to search for materials they lacked nearby.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?