Vocabulary
Who are nomads?
The use of advanced methods to solve problems; an ability gained by the practical use of knowledge.
What is technology?
Humans had to do this during the Ice Age to survive.
Humans began to farm and settle communities during this revolution.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
A government whose ruler is a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
The act of training for a particular job.
What is specialization?
This technology provided light and warmth, was used to cook meat, scared away dangerous animals.
What is fire?
Times when glaciers covered much of the land.
What are Ice Ages?
Men were responsible for this during the Neolithic Age.
What are farming and herding animals?
This helped early communities explain forces of nature and the role of humans in the world.
Relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age.
What is Paleolithic?
This stone could be used to make tools like axes.
What is flint?
Humans used these to create warmer clothing during the Ice Age.
What are animal furs?
Women were responsible for these jobs in the Neolithic Age.
What are caring for children, managing food supplies, and making clothing?
This person was in the highest social class.
A place where people worship.
What is a shrine?
This was made by melting copper and tin together.
What is bronze?
The land bridge connected these two continents.
What are Asia and North America?
People settled into villages near fields for these reasons.
What are planting, growing, and harvesting crops more easily?
People used writing for these reasons.
What are keeping records and preserving stories?
The organized growing of food on a regular schedule.
What is systematic agriculture?
Bronze was an important breakthrough because...
Bronze was stronger than copper and easier to make tools with than other materials.
The last Ice Age lasted this many years.
What is 90,000 years?
What is Jericho or Catalhuyuk?
Four great river valley civilizations emerged in these areas.
What are Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China?