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Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
The Beginnings of Civilization
Random Facts
100
The time before writing was invented
What is PREHISTORY
100
The people of the old stone age got their food by being.
What is Hunter-Gathers
100
This technique led people to enter the New Stone Age?
What is Farming.
100
More than what is needed
What is Surplus.
100
Where was the Iceman Found?
What is the Alps.
200
A Modern human or member of an earlier group that may have been relatives to modern humans.
What is a HOMINID
200
Early humans made their tools out of what three objects?
What is Stone, Bone, and Wood.
200
About 9,000 years ago these people began to plant rice crops.
Who are the Chinese.
200
A worker who is especially skilled in crafting items by hand?
What is an Artisan
200
Name two artifacts found with the Iceman?
What is a flint knife, bow and arrows, grass cloak, wool leggings, leather shoes.
300
The Study of the Earth's surface and the processes that shaped it.
What is Geography
300
Almost all of human prehistory took place during what Age?
What is the Old Stone Age
300
The process to adapt wild plants for human use.
What is to Domesticate
300
How did having a surplus of food affect the family sizes.
They increased.
300
what was the Iceman's Name?
What is Otzi
400
Supplying land with water through a system of canals
What is Irrigation
400
With Fire early humans could do what with it?
What is 1. ward off dangerous animals, 2. Move to colder climates.
400
What was the first animal to be domesticated.
What is a Dog.
400
Early civilizations developed along what element to prosper?
What is water, lakes, rivers.
400
This development allowed merchants to bring more goods to other civilizations then they would if they simply carried it?
What is the Wheel and axle
500
A society with cities, a government, specialized jobs and social classes.
What is a Civilization.
500
In what continent do they believe modern humans originated in?
What is Africa.
500
What is the term to describe people who raise livestock as they traveled from place to place in order to find grazing areas for their animals.
What is a Pastoral Nomad
500
Melting tin and copper produced what?
What is Bronze
500
Who made up the Nobel's
What is the Government officials, and Military officers.