Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Important Dates
Paleolithic Times
Miscellaneous
100
This is a document or artifact created by a person who witnessed a historical event.
What is a primary source?
100
This term is used to refer to an amount produced in excess of what is needed.
What is surplus?
100
Humans learned how to control fire approximately this long ago.
What is 500,000 years?
100
The word Paleolithic means _____________.
What is "Old Stone Age"?
100
These types of people were the first to specialize.
Who were potters and weavers?
200
This vocabulary term means the worship of God, gods, or spirits.
What is religion?
200
This is a group of people with similar customs, backgrounds, training, and income.
What is a social class?
200
The ancient farming village of Catal Huyuk is this old.
What is 9,000 years?
200
During the Paleolithic time, tools were primarily made from these three materials.
What are stone, bone, and wood?
200
In between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic times came this time period.
What is the Mesolithic time period?
300
The cultivation of soil in order to produce crops is known as this vocabulary term.
What is agriculture?
300
This vocabulary term refers to a work produced about a historical event by someone who was not actually there.
What is a secondary source?
300
By this year, early humans had learned how to farm.
What is 8000 B.C.?
300
In the Paleolithic times, these were the three primary ways of getting food.
What is hunting, gathering, and scavenging?
300
These were three disadvantages of living in early villages.
What were fire, disease, and flooding?
400
This term refers to the process of relocating to a new region.
What is migration?
400
This is an organization set up to make and enforce rules for a society.
What is government?
400
Humans had migrated nearly all over the world by this long ago.
What is 11,000 years ago?
400
In Paleolithic times, groups that lived together were this large.
What is 25-100 people?
400
Early humans began to settle in these areas.
What are river valleys?
500
People who hunt animals and gather plants for food were called this vocabulary term.
What are hunter-gatherers?
500
A skill in one type of work is known as ______________.
What is specialization?
500
The last ice age ended in this year.
What is 8000 B.C.?
500
Art in Paleolithic times consisted primarily of these two forms.
What are body ornamentation and cave paintings?
500
These were three things that early forms of government provided.
What are laws and leadership, order, and dispute resolution?
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