Because this hard substance was used to make tools and weapons, this period of human development was given this name.
What is stone?
100
This weapon was most frequently used in hunting large game.
What is a spear?
100
Because the gatherers in the bands were the people most familiar with how plants grew, anthropologists think that the first farmers were probably people of this gender.
What are women?
100
Anthropologists believe that human life began on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The initials B.C. mean this.
What is Before Christ?
200
Around 5000 B.C., people began to find a way to get minerals out of rocks to make tools and weapons, so the period after the Stone Age has this name.
What is the Age of Metals
200
When food was being gathered this method was used to determine if the food was poisonous?
What is trial and error?
200
This is the process of taming plants and animals for human use.
What is domestication?
200
Maize, pumpkins, squash, and potatoes (Known as New World vegetables) were first domesticated here.
What is North or South America?
200
Did 6,500 B.C. happen before or after 10,000 B.C.?
What is after?
300
During the period of the Earth's history from 600,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C., over 1/3 of the Earth was covered with glaciers, so this time period was given this name.
What is the Ice Age?
300
What important human skill made it possible for early people to work together when hunting large dangerous animals and also to avoid gathering poisonous food?
What is communication?
300
This loyal animal was the first animal to be tamed for human use.
What is the dog?
300
During the Ice Age people migrated out of Africa to every continent except this one.
What is Antarctica?
300
This is what we call a period of 1000 years.
What is a millenium?
400
This small community in the Orkney Islands is an important archeological New Stone Age site. It's name in Scottish Gaelic means "the village of the hilly dunes."
What is Skara Brae?
400
This large, lovable early form of elephant was hunted into extinction during the Hunter/Gatherer Period.
What is the wooly mammoth?
400
Animals like cows, pigs, and chickens that are used for food, work, or clothing are given this name.
What is livestock?
400
Skara Brae was in what continent?
What is Europe?
400
What do the letters A.D. mean?
What is Anno Domini-Year of the Lord-Years since the birth of Christ?
500
The earliest humans appeared around 2,500,000 years ago. The name for the earliest type of humans takes its name from Latin (australis) which means southern and (pithcus) which is Greek for ape.
What is Australopithecus?
500
People during the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods all used this to make their tools and weapons.
What is STONE?
500
This is another name for farming--the raising of domesticated crops and animals.
What is agriculture?
500
Besides Anatarctica, name another continent which did not develop agriculture?
What is Australia?
500
If someone says this is 2013 C.E., what do the letters C.E. mean?