Old Stone Age
Important Dates
New Stone Age
Farming
General
100

This continent is known to be the "cradle of humanity".

Africa

100

What happened in 3500 BCE

Invention of writing

100

What is another name for the New Stone Age

Neolithic Age

100

This place is known to be one of the earlier known agricultural communities

Jericho

100

How did early humans travel between Asia and North America?

Land Bridge

200

In Greek, this term means "old stone".

Paleolithic Age

200

This date ends prehistory

3500 BCE

200

This term means to tame animals for human use.

Domesticate

200

This agricultural tool was used to break the soil.

Farming hoe

200

This was discovered in caves in Lascaux, France.

Cave art

300

What is the term for people who move from place to place?

Nomads

300

What period of time began about 100,000 years ago?

Ice Age

300

What is the term referring to training for a particular job? 

Specialization

300

Men were responsible for ...

farming the land (tending the fields)

300

During the Ice Age, the oceans ...

Lowered

400

What term refers to tools and methods humans used to perform tasks?

Technology

400

This period of time started about 8,000 BCE.

Neolithic or Old Stone Age.

400

What agricultural tool was used to cut crops?

Sickle

400

This term refers to the organized growing of food on a regular schedule.

Systematic Agriculture

400

The Age (Era) between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age.

Mesolithic Age/Era

500

What did nomads do while moving from place to place?

Hunted and gathered

500

What does CE stand for?

Common Era

500

Permanent homes were built with ...

Mudbricks

500

This event refers to the rise in farming and settlement.

Agricultural Revolution

500

In Greek, this term means "new stone".

Neolithic Age