Vocabulary
This word means growing crops as a sustainable source of food.
What is agriculture?
The period of time before written records.
What is prehistory?
Where do historians believe humans first lived?
What is East Africa?
What allowed humans to settle instead of being nomadic?
What is agriculture and domestication of animals?
Archaeologists keep track of prehistory through written records.
False — through artifacts & fossils.
This word means to tame an animal for human use.
What is domesticate?
The Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic?
DAILY DOUBLE Which continent took humans the longest to reach?
What is South America?
People who gather plants and hunt wild animals.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
Fossils are remains of living things and artifacts are man-made.
True.
A period of extreme long-term cold.
What is the Ice Age?
Also known as the Agricultural Revolution
What is the Neolithic Age?
The physical movement from one place to another.
What is migration?
Doing different jobs in society beyond farming.
What is specialization?
The discovery of agriculture led to smaller populations.
False — it led to larger populations.
A manmade method of watering crops.
What is irrigation?
People who move from place to place for food, water, and shelter.
What is nomadic?
How did humans reach North America during the Ice Age?
What is walking across the land bridge or ice?
Why did agriculture allow societies to form?
What is food surplus → population growth → roles/jobs → villages?
The Neolithic Era was the Old Stone Age.
False — Paleolithic is the Old Stone Age.
The study of human societies and cultures.
What is anthropology?
The material early humans used to make most tools.
What is stone?
How did humans reach islands like Indonesia & Australia?
What is lower sea levels exposed land paths / short water crossings using simple rafts?
DAILY DOUBLE Name one permanent settlement during the Neolithic located in modern-day Turkey.
What is Çatalhöyük?
After the agricultural revolution, humans still had to hunt and gather sometimes.
True — farming wasn’t perfect.