The Study of History
The Ages of History
Palaeolithic
Neolithic
The Ancient World and Middle, Modern, and Contemporary Ages
100
Name the four types of historical sources.
1) Oral 2) Written 3) Graphic 4) Material
100
To facilitate the study of history, time is organized in distinct periods called...
Ages.
100
True or False, the Palaeolithic is the shortest period of history.
False
100
How did the discovery of farming change the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic?
Farming meant they didn´t have to look around for food.
100
What age comes before the Contemporary Age?
Modern Age
200
How many years make up a century? And a millennium?
Century: 100 years. Millennium: 1000 years.
200
How do we separate the different ages?
By important historical events.
200
What was the name of the humans during this time? What does this mean?
Nomads. They went from place to place looking for food.
200
Humans changed from nomads to...
Sedentary, they didn´t have to move around for food.
200
The Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula was in what period?
The Middle Ages
300
What does AD and BC mean?
BC: before the birth of Christ, AD: after the birth of Christ.
300
Prehistory began and ended with...
Began with the appearance of the first human beings and lasted until the invention of writing 5 000 years ago.
300
The Palaeolithic ended with what discovery?
Farming
300
Built monuments called...
Megaliths.
300
The Contemporary Age started in what year with what event?
1789, the French Revolution
400
What year was the first appearance of human beings?
2 000 000 BC
400
The Ancient World ended with the fall of the Roman Empire in what year?
476
400
What are the three ways to the nomads made fire?
1) hit stones together to make sparks 2) slid a stick backwards and forwards along a piece of wood 3) rotated a stick rapidly along a piece of wood
400
What new tool was invented to help with farming?
The plough.
400
The pyramids were built in what period?
Ancient World
500
What happened in 3 000 BC?
The invention of writing.
500
The Modern Age started and ended in what years? What were the important events that happened at the beginning and end of the Modern Age?
Started in 1492 with the discovery of America and ended in 1789 with the French Revolution.
500
What were the four characteristics of the nomads?
They made fire, made simple tools (from bones, stones, and wood), dresed in animcal skins, and drew pictures on the walls of caves.
500
What are five characteristics about humans during the Neolithic?
1) made pottery to store food 2) invented new tools 3) made fabrics to make clothes 4) built monuments 5) worked with metals like copper and bronze
500
What age was the steam engine invented?
Contemporary Age