What is S.S.
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Neo and Paleo
Other
100
Fill in the blank:
Archeologists study _______, or objects made by humans.
What are Artifacts.
100
People lived like this during the Paleolithic Era.
What are nomads.
100
People switched to this during the Neolithic Era.
What is agriculture/farming?
100
When people focus on a specific job or skill instead of doing everything needed to survive.
What is Specialization?
100
What is a primary source because it is from the time period when those people lived.
200
A piece of writing or artifact from the time period.
What is a primary source
200
People got food this way during the Paleolithic Era.
What are Hunters and Gathers
200
Where did the people in the Neolithic Era settle in? (Think Generally)
What are River Valleys?
200
The definition of Writing and Record Keeping is...
What is systems of writing used to communicate and keep track of information
200
What type of tool did the Neolithic people use for farming.
What are antlers.
300
Name 3 of the 7 aspects of civilization.
What are
Technology, Developed cities, Organized Government, Social Classes, Religion, Writing & Record Keeping, Art & Architecture
300
Lucy's remains showed us this.
That hominids walked upright (Lucy's knees) before developing a large brain.
300
The types of work that the Neolithic Era allow for.
What is the specialization of labor. Examples: Tool maker, farming, and traders.
300
What is a similarity and difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era
Paleo - Hunting and Gathering
Neo - Farming
Both - Stone tools
300
What is the difference between Archeology and Paleontolgy.
Archeologist study remains and artifacts that humans have left behind.
Paleontologists study the remains of animals like dinosaurs.
400
A piece of writing from after the time period that uses first hand accounts or items to explain what happened
What is a secondary source.
400
What did cave painting show us?
What is cave painting showed us the what was important in those individuals lives and animals.
400
What Neolithic houses were made out of.
What are mud-brick houses.
400
What are Hominids
What are:
An early human or human ancestor that lived in the past.
400
What technology did the Neolithic people create?
What are millstones, charred bread, grains and small apples, a clay cooking pot, and containers made of antlers and wood.
500
The study of people, places, culture and the past.
What is History?
500
The tool that Paleolithic people used to cut wild grain.
What is a sickle?
500
What are all the areas that developed farming independently?
Where is
Fertile Crescent, an area in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which developed agriculture around 11,000 BCE, the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys in China (9,000 BCE), the highlands of New Guinea (9,000-6,000 BCE), Northern South America (5,000- 4,0000 BCE), central Mexico (5,000-4,000 BCE), eastern North America (4,000-3,000 BCE), and sub-Saharan Africa (5,000-4,000 BCE).
500
What did Otzi's remains tell us.
What is he lived during the Neolithic Era due to the types of food that he had in his gut (domesticated plants and animals). He had tattoos on his body that were thought to be apart of a healing attempts. He was shot in the back with an arrow and changed elevation multiple times before his death.
500
What was the cheat code on the Geography Quiz.
What is Up, Up, Down, Left, Right, Shift