Vocabulary
Scientist who studies objects to learn about past human life
Archaeologist
Earliest period of the Stone Age
Paleolithic Era
Art that tells us what prehistory was like
Cave Paintings
Rivers were established here to help grow crops and provide trade routes
City
People who move from place to place to find food.
Nomads
Times when glaciers covered much of Earth's land and people needed to relocate
Ice Age
Cave Paintings used to depict things such as
Handprints, Oxen, Lions, Bisons, Panthers, Nature, Gods, Goddesses
We still have one today; provide protection for the people, their homes, and their food supplies
Government
Performing a specific task to be efficient
Specialization
Shift from hunting & gathering to farming
Agricultural Revolution
Paleolithic people communicated with each other through...
Spoken Language
Established because people though that gods and goddesses were responsible for communities survival
Religion
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
Irrigation
Latest period of the Stone Age, Agricultural Revolution marked the beginning of this
Neolithic Era
Something that was NOT a way to communicate during the Paleolithic Era
Written Language
Different burial types happened because of this; men usually higher
Class Structures
Civilization
The period of time following the Neolithic age where people discovered that mixing tin and copper made a stronger material.
The Bronze Age
When things started being recorded, they were written using this
Symbols
Developed to pass on important information from civilizations; symbols; paintings and scriptures depicting events
Writing & Art