Paleolithic Age
People in this age got food by hunting and __________.
What is gathering?
The Neolithic Age is also called the __________ Stone Age.
What is the New Stone Age?
The process of taming plants and animals to make them useful.
What is domestication?
Farming led to a more __________ food supply.
What is reliable?
The Agricultural Revolution began about __________ years ago.
What is 10,000 years ago?
The discovery of __________ gave warmth, protection, and a way to cook food.
What is fire?
The main difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages is the start of __________.
What is farming?
A time when humans farmed instead of hunting and gathering.
What is the Neolithic Age?
A disadvantage of farming is that __________ could destroy crops.
What are droughts (or floods / natural disasters)?
The first farmers planted this type of crop in the Fertile Crescent.
What is wheat or barley?
Paleolithic people often recorded their lives by creating __________ on cave walls.
What are cave paintings?
Neolithic people built permanent __________.
What are villages/settlements?
Having more food than immediately needed.
What is a surplus?
Farming allowed for larger __________ and more complex societies.
What are populations?
Farming first began in this part of the world.
What is the Fertile Crescent / Middle East?
Paleolithic people moved often to follow animals and find food. They were __________.
What are nomadic?
Because of food surpluses, people could specialize in different __________.
What are jobs?
Small groups of people who moved from place to place in the Paleolithic Age.
What are nomads?
Storing food allowed people to survive when __________ did not grow.
What are crops?
A tool used to grind grain into flour.
What is a quern stone (or grinding stone)?
The type of tools Paleolithic people made.
What are stone tools?
An early Neolithic village discovered in modern-day Turkey.
What is Çatalhöyük?
The name for the time before writing was invented.
What is prehistory?
With permanent settlements came the need for __________ and leadership.
What is government?
The Neolithic Age ended when humans discovered how to use __________ to make stronger tools.
What is metal (bronze/copper)?