Characteristics
This characteristic is how people explained unexplainable things. A belief system.
What is Religion?
Rules enforceable by the government.
What are laws?
Prehistory is the time before...
What is writing?
A century is how many years?
100
The people or groups that rule a particular region and make laws.
Who is government.
This characteristic makes a civilization unique. It is made up of the traditions, norms, arts, music, food clothing, and other things that make a civilization special.
What is culture?
Complex culture in which a large number of humans share common elements or characteristics.
What is a civilization?
A person who migrates or moves around and does not settle in one place.
What is a nomad?
BC stands for...
Before Christ
What were tools and hunting weapons made of in the Paleolithic Era?
Stone, bone, wood
This discovery made it possible to see in the dark, cook food, keep warm in the cold, scare away predators, and gather as a community.
What is fire?
A person who lives by hunting animals and searching for food.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
BCE stands for...
Before the Common Era
This characteristic made life easier for humans.
What is technology?
The Paleolithic Era was also known as the _______ Stone Age.
The Paleolithic Era was also known as the OLD Stone Age.
A word for "farming"
What is Agriculture?
To tame an animal and raise it around humans is to __________________________ it.
What is domesticate?
CE stands for...
The Common Era
This characteristic made it possible for humans to record history and keep records.
What is writing?
What did the Agricultural Revolution lead to? (name 3 things)
-Permanent Settlements
-Stable food supply (food surplus)
-Animal Domestication
-Barter Economy
-Labor specialization
-population increase
-new sources of food and clothing
-life as we know it!
Trading goods and resources for other goods and resources.
What is Barter Economy?
Describe Labor Specialization
After the discovery of farming, people had time to practice different skills and get good at them! People became skilled at different jobs.
AD stands for...
Anno Domini, Latin for "in the year of our Lord"