Paleolithic
"Old Stone Age" is it's literal meaning.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
A constant food supply, population growth, and settled communities all describe what historians often refer to as the most important event in human history
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Hunter- Gatherers who are nomadic.
Who are Paleolithic People?
The age characterized as from 2.5 Million BC to 8,000 BC Years ago.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
One of the four great river valley civilizations settled the furthest North. (map page 68)
What is China?
By discovering how to make this, people were able to stay warm, cook food, scare away large animals, chase animals out of the bush to be killed, and store food longer.
What is the discovery of fire?
What is domesticate?
Domesticated animals and utilized systematic agriculture.
Who are Neolithic?
This occurred in 8,000 BC and wheat and barley were the primary crops.
What is southwest Asia farming?
In a social class structure you would find these people at the wealthy and powerful individuals at the top, followed by these free people, and at the bottom, the individuals who had been captured from enemies during war.
Who are the monarchy, priests, and warriers. Followed by the artisans, farmers, and craftspeople, and finally the enslaved people.
Flint tools were a huge form of __________ in this time, providing a tool and method to perform tasks.
What is technology?
Because of an abundance of food, Neolithic people were able to take up specific jobs such as weapon makers, jewelry makers, or artisans.
What is specialization?
Women cared for the children while the Men worked away from home.
What is Paleolithic and Neolithic? (Note for Neolithic, this meant more so working in the fields than say on far off hunts for meat).
The rise of large civilizations and the Bronze Age can both be attributed to this year.
What is 3000 BC?
Writing and art created for enjoyment became a clear indication of the amount of THIS that these people were able to enjoy.
What is leisure time?
Acting as a natural highway that allowed people to travel from Asia into North America, this development during the Ice Age is one theory as to how humans reached every continent.
What is a Land Bridge?
This discovery of mixing copper and tin in western Asia ushered out the Neolithic period and welcomed this technological break through.
What is the Bronze age?
Fire played a large roll in these humans survival.
Both Paleolithic and Neolithic
Farming in Egypt began and eventually moved its way to Europe during this chunk of time.
BONUS: What Crops were they growing where?
What is from 6000 BC to 4000 BC?
BONUS: Wheat and barley (Egypt) Europe (oats Rye and Olives)
Government, religions, social structure, and writing and art were all similarities shared by these ancient civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China.
I spend my days gathering berries, nuts and grains and making decisions with my band.
What is a hunter/gatherer (gatherer).
Located near field and water sources, these landforms provided Neolithic Villages some great advantages.
What is the ability to plant, grow, and harvest their crops more easily?
Give me examples of this!
Corn, squash, and potatoes were making their rise in Mexico and Central America during this time.
What is 7000-5000 BC?
This type of government was popular amongst early civilizations and the ruler inherits the position from a parent.
What is a monarchy?