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What is Before Common Era?
The lifestyle of someone who goes from place to place.
What is Nomadic?
A time in history when a significant and lasting change occurs.
What is a turning point?
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers used these three materials to make tools.
What are stone, bone, and wood?
Farming (fancy word).
What is agriculture?
The name given to the global environmental impact that lead to the Neolithic Revolution, a warming period in earth's history.
What is the end of the ice age?
How Paleolithic people acquired their food.
What is hunting and gathering?
Focusing on specific non-food related jobs due to a surplus.
What is specialization?
The process of taming a wild animal to use it for human purposes.
What is domestication?
The Neolithic Revolution began around 11,000 B.C.E. in this area of the world.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Objects made by humans like tools, buildings, weapons, art, pottery, and clothing that are usually found and studied by archaeologists.
What are artifacts?
The cardinal directions.
What are north, east, south, and west?
The study of modern day societies to learn how people lived in the past.
What is anthropology?
The Paleolithic Era started this long ago.
What is 200,000 years ago?
While possibly unstable, this diet consisting of wild fruits, vegetables, nuts, and game, was varied.
What is a Paleolithic diet?
The use of genetic markers to determine when and where groups of humans migrated in the past.
What is genomic testing?
The two major characteristics of the Neolithic Revolution.
What are agriculture and permanent settlements?
The new stone age.
What is the Neolithic Era?
Places where people live for long periods of time, possibly for their whole lives
What are permanent settlements?
Depictions of bulls and horses were found in this in Lascaux, France.
What is a cave?
The process of exchanging goods or ideas.
What is cultural diffusion?
Paleolithic communities had about this many people in them.
What is 25-50?
The Neolithic community of Catal Huyuk had about this many people at any given time.
What is 5,000-8,000?
In which of the following did not experience the Neolithic Revolution independently: sub-Saharan Africa, central Europe, or central Mexico.
What is central Europe?
This area of the world underwent the Neolithic revolution around 9,000 B.C.E. between the banks of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.
What is China?