Vocabulary
Food, Music, Language, and Clothing are just a few parts of someone's way of life that we call _________
Culture
I'm hungry, time to chase an animal for several miles. Along the way I'll snack on some nuts and berries I find. That's the life of ______________
Hunter-Gatherers
This event is used to mark the start of the Neolithic Age, and it starts our Neolithic Category
The Agricultural Revolution
The Climate is getting hotter and dryer and early man needs to move or everyone will starve! Lucky for us, the Sahara Desert had one of these to keep humans cool as they started their migration around the globe.
An Oasis
All of our tools were made of this. These tools are used for so long we named this era The __________ after our tool's materials.
Stone Age
This is an object left behind by a person a looooooong time ago.
Artifact
Early Man's culture can be hard to learn about since they've been gone for so long. But Paleontologists keep digging up this information that showed a cultural aspect of early man. What did they do that showed at least some culture?
They buried their dead
A person who grows their food instead of hunting it down. This first ones started the Neolithic Age
Farmer
This part of the world was human's first stop after leaving Africa on their global migration
Southwest Asia
It gives light, kills disease, and scares away animals. We still use this technology to power our machines today
Fire
The scientific name for farming
Agriculture
Early man expressed themselves a lot using this primary source. Normally they would include animals, handprints, or other things they saw in their world.
Cave Paintings
Easy there. Relax. Come inside, we will give you a good meal and a safe place to live. What animal wouldn't want that? This process turned wild plants into crops and wild animals into pets and livestock.
Domestication
Brrrr!!! A land bridge is partly frozen water, and the temperature is lower than ever. This cold-named climate let early man walk to North America and Australia from Asia.
The Ice Age
The first animal humans ever tamed. Still loyal to this day.
Dogs/Wild Wolf
The Dinosaurs have been gone a while but there are still giants!!! What do we call these humongous beasts like the Wooly Mammoth?
Megafauna
Early man was constantly moving during the Paleolithic Age, which meant that they were called _________
Nomads
Staying in one place meant humans could get comfortable and experiment. Humans built Kilns (giant undergrounds ovens) to melt down this material, which would be used to end the Stone Age
Metal (Bronze/Iron)
The climate is changing again! Now I am able to grow plants easier, which is making it so easy to domesticate these wild plants and animals. This is because the climate is changing to be more ________
New types of work need new specialized tools. These tools tore open the top layer of soil so that seeds could be planted in the good dirt underneath. A big version would be strapped to a cow to do the work for us!
Hoe or Plow
This geographic location is where a freshwater river meets the salty ocean. The nearby soil was extra fertile so early man started their first farms here.
Estuary
An early human skull was found on this continent, the oldest human fossil we have found, proving where the first humans appeared.
Africa
Fruits and vegetables spoil too quickly. To make farming work, the first farms focused on growing these types of plants which could be made into bread and stored for a long time without going bad.
Grains (Cereal Grains)
Now that's some good farmland! People have been learning how to make the land and animals work for them, and this area of the world is so good for farming it gets its own name. (Hint it has a shape in its name)
The Fertile Crescent
We have come a long way since prehistoric times, and historians love to write about all we have learned. What kind of sources do these historians make when they write about the past?
Secondary