The Paleolithic Age
What is another name for the Paleolithic Age
The Old Stone Age
Did humans have to adapt to their environment during this age?
Yes
domesticate
to tame
When did the Neolithic Age begin?
Around 8000 B.C
mixing copper and tin together create what metal?
Bronze
How did nomadic Paleolithic people find their food?
Hunting and gathering
What did humans use during this age to make clothing?
Animal skins
systematic agriculture
farming
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
The movement to settled farming
The use of bronze spreading between 3000 and 1200 BC is called...
The bronze age
What did Paleolithic people discover to make?
Fire
What connected Asia to North America due low water levels?
Land Bridge
monarchy
government led by a king or a queen
What made it possible for people to settle in villages?
Increased Supply of food
Societies were divided into what?
Social Classes
During this age better ____ and spoken _____ were developed.
Tools and Language
What happened to the levels of water in the ocean during this Age?
They went down.
nomads
people who move place to place
What happened to animals during this age?
They became tamed/domesticated
What was invented during this time?
Writing Systems
The Paleolithic Age lasted until about what year?
8000 B.C
When did the most recent Ice Age begin?
About 100,000 B.C
Ice ages
Periods of extreme cold on earth
What metal was discovered at the end of the Neolithic Age?
Bronze
What were the 4 great river valley civilizations formed during the Bronze Age
Mesopotamia, Egpyt, India and China