Primitive Tech
What discovery allowed early humans to cook food, stay warm, and protect themselves?
What is fire?
The earliest humans first lived on which continent?
What is Africa?
What large animals did Paleolithic hunters often chase for food, fur, and bones?
What are mammoths?
What did Paleolithic people gather from the wild to eat, in addition to hunting animals?
What are berries, fruits, or nuts?
Which came first, the Paleolithic or Neolithic era?
What is the Paleolithic?
Paleolithic tools were mostly made of stone. In the Neolithic, people began making tools out of what stronger material?
Copper/Metal
Early humans used temporary shelters like caves. In which period did permanent homes first appear?
What is the Neolithic era?
Dogs were the first domesticated animals. During which era did this happen?
What is the Paleolithic era?
Which major change in plant use separates the Neolithic era from the Paleolithic?
What is farming/domestication of plants?
Paleolithic people were nomads. What were Neolithic people?
What are settlers/farmers who lived in permanent villages?
Neolithic people developed a new technology that allowed them to carry water and store food. What was it?
Pottery
The Fertile Crescent, where farming began, is located in which modern-day region?
What is the Middle East (Mesopotamia)?
Paleolithic people used bones from hunted animals to make what type of tool or weapon?
What are needles, harpoons, or spear tips?
Name one of the first plants domesticated in the Fertile Crescent.
What is wheat or barley?
The Greek words “Paleo” and “Neo” mean what?
What is “old” (Paleo) and “new” (Neo)?
People began to pratice ______________________, or the development of different kinds of jobs because not everyone had to be a hunter/gatherer anymore
What is specialization
During the last Ice Age, early humans crossed into North America using what land bridge?
What is Beringia?
Sheep, goats, and cattle were domesticated in the Neolithic. What did this allow people to do besides eat meat?
What is produce milk, wool, and labor (work animals)?
Neolithic farmers used sickles to harvest plants. What crop did people in early China begin to farm?
What is rice?
In the Paleolithic era, people made cave paintings. In the Neolithic age, people created this stone monument
Stonehenge
The shift from using hand axes to specialized tools like sickles and plows marks the development of what major human advance?
What is agriculture (the farming revolution)?
One of the world’s oldest known Neolithic villages is located in what present-day country?
What is Turkey?
The extinction of Ice Age animals like the woolly rhinoceros and saber-tooth cat is linked to two factors—name one.
What is climate change or overhunting by humans?
The Agricultural Revolution spread across the world at different times. What crop was domesticated in the Americas?
What is maize (corn)?
What term is used by historians to describe the shift from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic lifestyle?
What is the Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution?