Social Scientists
This is an expert who studies Earth’s natural and human-made features.
Geographer
Historians divide the Stone Age into the Paleolithic Age and the….
Neolithic Age.
Another name for agriculture is...
farming.
What two rivers were important to the people of Mesopotamia?
Tigris & Euphrates
What does being a nomad mean?
Moving around a lot.
Archaeologist is to artifact as historian is to….
Diary
During the Paleolithic Age, people got food by….
Moving from place to place, hunting wild animals, gathering wild plants & roots.
Neolithic humans became sedentary, which means....
they stayed in one place, with permanent shelters.
What was the first human civilization formed?
Sumer/Sumerians
Why is it difficult to study prehistoric humans?
There are no written records.
People who study ancient history make educated guesses called….
Hypotheses
Agriculture can be described as….
The growing of crops and domestication of animals.
The two parts of agriculture are...
growing crops and domestication of animals.
How did the people of Sumer solve the problem of having an uncontrolled water supply?
Created a complex irrigation system, including dams, levees and reservoirs.
How did hunters & gatherers obtain their food?
They hunted animals and gathered food.
Social scientists are scholars who study….
Human Society
Cave paintings were important to Paleolithic people because it gave them...
A way to communicate.
Paleolithic is considered PREhistoric, but Neolithic is considered history. Why?
Because Neolithic people began writing things down that happened.
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers.
What was a benefit of being able to have a steady food supply?
Could stay in one place, build permanent shelter, have free time, etc.
Archaeologists study the past by examining….
Objects that humans have left behind.
Paleolithic life was dangerous because...
The Neolithic Revolution began in what part of the world?
Fertile Crescent
This buildings served as lookouts and places for people to go for protection in ancient Sumer...
Ziggurat.
Domestication of animals meant that people could...
Use the animals for meat, milk, work & protection.