Paleolithic Era
This term describes the lifestyle of Old Stone Age humans who moved frequently in search of food
What is nomadic / hunter-gatherer
This practice of raising livestock and growing crops first occurred during the Neolithic Age rather than the Old Stone Age
What is the domestication of plants and animals
Early humans originally migrated out of this continent.
What is Africa
Living close together in permanent farming communities caused populations to suffer from outbreaks of this
What is disease
The domestication of plants and animals directly led people to live in these instead of temporary campsites.
What are permanent homes / settlements
Lasting from roughly 2,000,000 B.C.E. to 8,000 B.C.E., this period is also known as the Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This major turning point in world history marked the shift from hunting and gathering to farming and settled communities.
What is the Neolithic Revolution
Based on the migration map, this region of the world was reached last by early human populations.
Before towns and cities can develop, a society must first establish this steady provision of extra food.
What is a food surplus
Producing more food than was immediately needed allowed populations to grow and people to perform jobs other than this.
What is farming
This key survival tool and source of energy characterized Paleolithic technology alongside rough stone tools.
Early agricultural settlements were established near this type of geographic landmark.
What is a river
The primary cause driving early human migration routes across the globe was
What is a food source
This term refers to the process where people within a settled community stop farming and perform specific jobs like making tools or pottery.
What is job specialization
The transition from hunter-gatherer mobility to permanent farming life resulted in human skeletons developing this negative physical change
What is malnutrition
Because people in the Old Stone Age followed animal herds and moved when wild plants became unviable, their society was classified as this.
What is nomadic
Around 5,000 B.C.E., this invention was created and used primarily for transport.
This specific geographic feature had the single greatest influence on the development of early civilizations.
What is fertile land/soil
Unlike the agricultural era, scientists note that this era did not experience major disease outbreaks or epidemics.
Due to settling down, early humans of the Neolithic Era were able to accumulate more personal goods and property. This led to a problem that was NOT seen during the Paleolithic Era
What is war betwen neighboring civilizations
Early humans crossed over this land route region (visible on the map during the ice ages) to reach North America
What is the Bering Strait/land bridge
What developed during the Neolithic Era as differences in wealth, power, and status increased?
What is unequal social classes
During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped and exposed land that connected Asia and North America. What geographic feature allowed early humans to migrate between these territories
What is Siberia & Alaska
What type of art created by Paleolithic humans provides evidence of their daily lives, animals, and possible beliefs?
What is cave paintings
The introduction of agriculture and settled communities is considered the main reason why this specific historic concept is applied to the Neolithic Revolution.
What is a turning point