Prehistory
The time before people invented writing is called this.
What is prehistory?
People of the Paleolithic period survived by doing these two activities instead of farming.
What are hunting and gathering?
Instead of hunting and gathering, Neolithic people began doing this to get food.
What is farming/agriculture?
This “revolution” was when humans shifted from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the Agricultural/Neolithic Revolution
A timeline shows events in this order, based on when they happened.
What is chronological order?
Scientists who study the past by digging up tools, bones, and artifacts are called this.
What are archaeologists?
This important discovery gave Paleolithic people warmth, light, protection, and a way to cook food.
What is Fire?
Because they grew crops and raised animals, Neolithic people could settle down in these.
What is permanent villages/communities?
The ability to grow crops and raise animals is called this.
What is agriculture?
The letters B.C.E. on a timeline mean this.
What is Before Common Era?
This period, also called the Old Stone Age, was when early humans used simple stone tools.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Paleolithic people made simple tools out of this material to cut, scrape, and hunt.
What is stone/flint?
This major change in human life, when people began farming and settling, is called this.
Because of farming, people could settle in one place instead of being these moving hunters.
What are nomads?
The letters C.E. on a timeline mean this.
What is Common Era?
The study of ancient people based on fossils, bones, and artifacts is called this.
What is anthropology?
Because they moved from place to place following food, Paleolithic people are called this.
What are Nomads?
Neolithic people domesticated animals. This means they did this to animals for food, work, and companionship.
What is tame/train them?
With extra food from farming, people could develop these jobs, like tool-making or trading.
What are specialized jobs?
The calendar we use today is called
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
This huge invention ended prehistory and began history, when people started keeping records.
What is the invention of writing?
These colorful images of animals painted on cave walls are one of the earliest forms of art and communication.
What is cave art?
In the Neolithic Period, people began making tools and weapons out of this stronger material instead of just stone.
What is metal?
The Agricultural Revolution led to the rise of these large, organized communities with governments and cultures.
What are civilizations?
This person invented the calendar we use today, that was later improved on by Pope Gregory XIII
Who is Julius Caesar?