Paleolithic Age
What is another name for the Paleolithic time?
What was another name for this time period?
New Stone Age
_________________ are complex societies.
Civilizations
What is a historian?
Where is Mesopotamia located?
between Tigris River and Euphrates River
Why were Paleolithic people always on the move?
They were hunter/ gathers and needed to move to get food.
What was the job of farmers?
They had to stay close to their fields to water plants, keep hungry animals away, and harvest their crops.
Why did the first civilization start in river valleys?
Good farming conditions made it easy to feed large number of people. The river helped them to get from one place to another.
What is an archaeologist?
they hunt for evidence buried in the ground
What is the Greek meaning of Mesopotamia?
the land between rivers
What were the roles of the women during this time?
Stayed closed to home
Looked after the children
Searched the woods for nuts, berries and grains
What was the life changing discovery during this time?
farming
People formed ___________ to make plans, decisions, laws and assembled armies.
governments
What is an anthropologist?
dry and hot
What was the role of the men during this time?
hunted animals
learned about the habits of the animals
make tools to hunt
People could _______ in one place.
settle
To pass on information, they invented ways of ______________.
writing
What is a nomad?
people who move from place to place.
This is a grand temple, that was a place for worships in the center of town.
ziggurat
What was the life changing discovery during this time?
fire
People began to work with _________. they first used _______ . Then they that with _______ to form_________.
metal, copper, tin, bronze
List the 6 features that make a strong civilization:
c_________
o_________ g__________
a_____
r_________
c________ d_________
w________ s____________
cities
organized governments
art
religion
class division
writing system
What does domesticate mean?
tame animals and plants for human use
What are city-states?
land that is separate and has its own government and was not part of any larger unit.