Classifying Evidence
A letter written by a solider during the Civil War is an example of this.
What is a primary source?
A story or interpretation of the past
What is history?
True or False: We read a timeline like we do a book. (from left to right)
What is true?
Paleolithic people were considered these, in reference to how they got food.
What are hunters and gatherers?
During the Neolithic Revolution, focus changed from hunting and gathering to this.
What is farming and herding?
Examples of these include textbooks and documentaries
What are secondary sources?
What is "Before Common Era"?
On a number line in math, we consider these numbers to be negative. But on a timeline in history, we considered these years to be this time period.
What is BCE?
Being able to use these separated Paleolithic people from other early humans.
What are tools?
Agriculture meant having to stay near your animals and farm, eventually leading to these.
What are permanent settlements?
Anything relating to how people interact with each other in daily life.
What are social factors?
When there is not enough of something to fullfill the needs of all
What is scarcity?
True or false: On a timeline, the year 2600 BCE should go over the year 2026 because it's a bigger number.
False, 2600BCE is all the way to the left on the timeline and 2026 is to the right.
People who moved around from place to place were called these.
When people stayed in one place for a while, they were able to develop ideas about this, which helped explain nature and seasons.
What is religion?
Anything related to power, laws, and governments.
What are political factors?
A significant event or moment that changed history in a last way.
What is a turning point?
Fill in this timeline correctly:
22 BCE 45 BCE 1000 BCE 10 CE
People lived and traveled in small groups of this many people.
What is about 20-30?
Agriculture and technology lead to larger harvests and bigger populations. What was created in order to keep everything in order?
What is government organizations?
Anything related to money, trade, and wealth.
What are economic factors?
the beliefs, customs, traditions, and ways of life shared by a group of people
What is culture?
Fill in this timeline correctly:
What are farming and domesticating animals.
Remaining in one place led to job specialization which led to creating irregation systems which helped do this and this.
What is allow a larger harvest and help grow the population.