Paleolithic Age
What does Paleolithic Age mean?
Old Stone Age
What does Neolithic Age mean?
New Stone Age
All of the Earliest Civilizations developed along or near this Geographic Feature.
River Valleys (Rivers)
Which of the following developments was the FIRST step humans took toward developing large civilizations? a) Dividing of Labor b) Creating Social Classes c) domesticating plants and animals d) developing ideas of religion.
C) Domesticating Plants and animals
A place where people worship.
Shrine/Temple
During the Paleolithic age, all humans had one job; _________ & ___________.
Hunting and Gathering
What Major Change happened among human groups during the Neolithic Age?
Agriculture (Farming)
Agricultural Revolution
How did techniques like irrigation (moving/saving water) transform civilizations?
Answers Vary: Civilizations could expand more, larger food surplus, Civilizations could exist in drier and more arid places (deserts), etc.
A government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent.
Monarchy
What major development led to the end of the Paleolithic age, and allowed humans to change their hunting and gathering lifestyle?
Agriculture (farming)
During the Agricultural Revolution, Neolithic people settled in villages, created new technology, began to farm, and _____________ animals.
Domesticated (tamed)
What are three important reasons that early humans settled near Rivers in River Valleys?
Answers Vary: Water for farming, Water for drinking, Water for cleaning, Protection, Trading/Transportation, Water for fishing etc.
Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
A belief in more than one god.
Polytheism
What are four resources used to make tools during the paleolithic age?
answers vary: bone, stone, wood, clay, etc
This discovery during the Neolithic age led to improved technology like stronger weapons, better buildings, and newer devices.
Use of metal (Bronze)
Improved Farming techniques led to increases in what areas of human life? (give at least 2 examples)
Food surplus, population increase, More technology, larger cities.
Mesopotamia had a nickname because the land it occupied was extremely good for farming.
Fertile Crescent
A pyramid shaped structure built in ancient Mesopotamia with a temple at the top.
Ziggurat
Paleolithic people were _________; meaning they were always on the move, never settling down.
Nomads/Nomadic
Neolithic communities had such a large surplus of food that people began to ____________, or develop a specific set of skills in only one area/job.
Specialize
What are two major Civilizations that were forming around 5-6 thousand years ago?
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India
This development is considered the beginning of History. Early civilizations all developed their own version of it.
Writing
A writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sounds in Ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphics