What Time Is It?
Oceans and Continents
Who Studies History & Cave Art
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
100
This expression abbreviates to BC when discussing ancient dates.
What is Before Christ?
100
This is the feature labelled B on the map.
What is Africa?
100
To record information about prehistoric wildlife or perhaps for ritualistic spiritual experiences are possible reasons for this practice of stone age humans.
What is cave art?
100
The Stone Age is divided into these two eras, meaning Old Stone and New Stone, respectively.
What are Paleolithic and Neolithic?
100
This is what the word Neolithic literally means.
What is New Stone [Age]?
200
This expression abbreviates to BCE when discussing ancient dates.
What is Before the Common Era?
200
This is the feature labelled I on the map.
What is Asia?
200
In prehistoric cave art, these figures were the most detailed, even more than human figures.
What are animals?
200
Paleolithic humans used tools made of this, hence the name of the era.
What is stone?
200
The revolution that defines the Neolithic Age is characterized by this practice.
What is agriculture?
300
This is the formula you use to calculate how many years between two dates both BCE or CE.
What is subtract the smaller from the bigger?
300
This is the name of the feature labelled L.
What is the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean?
300
While we cannot be sure of exactly the reason for cave art, the effort it took to create clearly shows this.
What is it was important to prehistoric humans?
300
During the Paleolithic Era, humans biggest concern was this.
What is survival?
300
This is the result of domestication and agriculture, which led to a surplus of food and specialization.
What are permanent settlements?
400
This is the formula for calculating duration of years between an event that was BCE and another that happened CE.
What is add them together and subtract 1?
400
The mnemonic Aunt Sallie Is A Pirate helps one remember the names of what five things?
What are the five oceans?
400
These two kinds of social scientists study the past by digging up artifacts and by mapping natural features, respectively.
What are archeologists and geographers?
400
Paleolithic humans got food by this method.
What is hunting and gathering?
400
Once humans began to have a stable food supply thanks to agriculture, this developed, in which people had one job and got really good at that one job.
What is specialization?
500
This Latin expression abbreviates to AD and means "Year of our Lord."
What is Anno Domini?
500
The mnemonic Eat Four Apples Says Nanny helps one remember the names of these.
What are the seven continents?
500
This social scientist studies human culture, how people develop art, science, technology and in general relate to each other.
What are anthropologists?
500
Due to their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, paleolithic humans were also this, never staying in one place too long.
What are nomads?
500
The concept of Cultural Diffusion, which began in the Neolithic era meant this.
What is an exchange of not only goods but ideas as well?