Prehistory
What is B.C.?
means before the birth of Christ
What is Paleolithic Age?
Land between the rivers
What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
A metal that has a yellow and brown color
What is Bronze?
When and why does prehistory end?
In 3250 BC with the invention of writing
What is a nomad?
a person who has no single settled home and moves from place to place to find food
What is hunting and gathering?
the earliest ways of getting food
Old rock or Old Age
What does the word Paleolithic mean?
Cultivating land, raising crops and raising livestock
What is agriculture?
List the five prehistoric periods from earliest to latest.
Paleolithic, Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, & Iron
What prehistoric period did people start living as nomads?
People grew barley, oats and rye.
What is the Iron Age?
cuneiform
What is the first written language called?
Silt
What was the name of the fertile soil left behind after the Tigris and Euphrates flooded?
What prehistoric period was the atlatl (stonecutting) invented in?
Paleo
What was used before people learned to use written language?
cave paintings
People began to make pottery during this age.
What is Mesolithic Age?
Which continent has evidence of the first humans?
What is Africa?
The Fertile Crescent
What is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was great for growing crops?
What prehistoric period were metal tools invented in?
The Copper, Bronze, and Iron Ages
What are tools?
Considered technology, early Stone Age people made these out of stone.
In this age Knossos was found by archaeologist.
What is the Bronze Age?
Name the 5 reasons why fire was important to the Paleolithic people.
warmth, hunting, cooking food, scaring away animals, and light
Process that uses high heat to separate metal
What is smelting?
A large extinct elephant
What is a mammoth?
Age that Olduvai Gorge was discovered.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
This age is named for the type of metal that was commonly used.
What is the Iron Age?
The belief that spirits reside in animals, objects or dreams.
What is Animism?
An object found at an archaeological excavation
What is an artifact?
What is the Copper Age?