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What's that word?Vocabulary
Older than Dirt- Old/Middle Stone Age
A New Day Has Come- New Stone Age
Hmmm -what's that shiny thing? Beginning of Civilization
Location,Location, Location-How geography affects culture
100
the time before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
100
people that hunted wild animals and gathered wild plants
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
this practice marked the beginning of the New Stone Age
What is farming?
100
the mixture of copper and tin; this metal was used to make more durable (harder) and longer lasting weapons and tools
What is bronze?
100
food surplus (having more than what is needed) led to this change in population
What is population growth?
200
stories passed down by word of mouth
What is a oral history?
200
these people moved around looking for wild plants and following the animals they were hunting
What are nomads?
200
people in the new stone age looked for this type of land to plant their crops
What is fertile land?
200
about 6600 B.C. when people learned to use bronze
What is The Bronze Age?
200
This process of using canals to water crops (plants) that were not near the water led to the creation of early civilizations
What is irrigation?
300
a worker is very skilled in making pottery, cloth, leather goods and tools by hand
What is an artisan?
300
more advanced and longer lasting tools and weapons of stone, wood and sometimes copper marked the beginning of this age
What is the Middle Stone Age?
300
these people moved around in order to find food for their animals
What are pastoral nomads?
300
this exchange of goods of land and water led to the exchange of information
What is trade?
300
first crops grown in Southwest Asia (three items)
What are barley, wheat and beans?
400
a society that has cities, a central government run official leaders, and workers with various (different) jobs
What is civilization?
400
the ability to use this allowed people to live in colder climate
What is fire?
400
to tame animals for human use
What is domesticate?
400
about 3500 B.C. this simple but amazing invention was introduced; this made transportation easier
What is the wheel and axle?
400
civilizations developed near what major geographic feature
What are rivers or water sources?
500
the study of the Earth's surface and the processses that shape it
What is geography?
500
a scientist who examines objects to learn about how people lived
What is an archeologist?
500
This is where the new stone age began
What is Southwest Asia?
500
developed as civilizations developed
What are social classes?
500
the first civilizations developed near which rivers
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Nile, The Huang and the Indus?