Time Designations
This time designation means 100 years
What is a century?
These are small groups of nomadic people who lived during the paleolithic Age. They moved from place to place looking for food and shelter.
What are hunter - gatherers?
This is the systematic growing of crops and domestication of animals (farming).
What is agriculture?
These are man-made tools or methods developed to make tasks easier.
What is technology?
This river valley civilization is located on the Nile River.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This time designation means 10 years.
What is a decade?
This is a person who moves from place to place and does not have a permanent home
What is a nomad?
The is the act of providing water to plants and crops.
What is irrigation?
this is when there is more than is needed or having extra.
What is surplus?
This river valley civilization is located on the Yellow River.
What is ancient China?
This time designation means the same as B.C. before Christ.
What is B.C.E. before common era (Before Jesus was born)?
This is the earliest period of the Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
This is the trading of goods or services without using money.
What is bartering?
This is the way of life for a group of people at a specific time period
What is culture?
This river valley civilization is located on the Indus River.
What is Ancient India?
This time designation means "In the year of the Lord" - After Jesus was born.
What is A.D. (Anno Domini)?
This is the last period of the Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Age?
This development led to the growth of populations and job specialization.
What is a stable food supply / food surplus?
This is the ranking of people into social classes according to their job or wealth.
What is social structure?
This river valley civilization is located on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This time designation means approximately.
What is circa?
This is what early people used to protect themselves from animals, to keep warm, and as a source of light.
What is how early people used fire?
(Fill in the blank) These are the effects of the ______________.
People no longer had to hunt and gather to survive. People settled into communities.
Some people began to specialize in other jobs or professions.
People were able to barter or trade food, goods, and services.
What are the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
This is an organization developed by civilizations to handle the control and distribution of resources, irrigation, building projects, and trade.
What is government?
To access fresh water for drinking bathing, watering/ irrigating crops, and watering animals.
What is why many civilizations were developed along rivers.