Paleolithic Era
The term for people who migrate from place to place.
What are nomads?
This term means 'moving from place to place'.
What is migrate/migration/nomadic?
Tools and methods to perform tasks.
What is technology?
This term means 'farming'.
What is agriculture?
The term for the time period before written records.
What is Prehistory?
This is how early humans in the Paleolithic Era got their food.
What is hunting/gathering?
Long periods of extreme cold that affected all of Earth; glaciers covered much of the land.
What is an Ice Age?
To tame animals for human use.
What is domesticate?
The exchange of goods and ideas.
What is trading?
Civilizations had complex social organizations, known as _________ __________, where people in society were organized into groups.
What are social classes?
This is how early people communicated during the Paleolithic Era.
What are cave paintings?
This is how Prehistoric people arrived in North America.
What is people migrated from Asia via land bridge?
Act of training for a particular job, in this case, other than farming.
What is specialization?
A mixture of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
In these first civilizations, the first governments were led by a King/Queen.
What is a monarchy?
This resource allowed people in the Old Stone Age to live in cold climates.
What is fire?
Name (1) example of an invention developed by the Mesolithic people.
What are bow and arrows, fishing hooks, spears, canoes, and/or pottery?
The organized growing of food on a regular schedule, enabled people to produce a constant food supply.
What is systematic agriculture?
This was the large shift when many once nomadic peoples converted to agriculture, the domestication of plants and animals.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
A complex society characterized by the development of state, social classes, urbanization, etc.
What is a civilization?
This era was called the “Stone Age” because early humans used stone to make tools and weapons. In Greek, it means "old stone".
What is the Paleolithic era?
The period in human prehistory that is characterized by a transition from hunting to domestication of animals and plants. In Greek, it means “middle stone".
What is the Mesolithic era?
The period in human prehistory that is characterized by the development of agriculture and domestication of animals. This period is also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution and/or "new stone".
What is the Neolithic era?
The period that is characterized by the use of bronze.
What is the Bronze Age?
The (3) eras in which Prehistory is divided into.
What are Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic eras?