🏹 PALEOLITHIC
Find Food:
Question:
During the Paleolithic Era, how did most people get their food?
Answer: Hunting animals and gathering plants.
Question:
What does Neolithic mean?
Answer: New Stone Age.
Prehistory
Question:
What is prehistory?
Answer: The period of time before writing was invented.
Hunter-Gatherers
Question:
What are hunter-gatherers?
Answer: Groups of people who obtain food by gathering plants and hunting.
Question:
A group grows crops, raises domesticated animals, and lives in a permanent settlement. Paleolithic or Neolithic?
Answer: Neolithic.
Fire
Question:
Name two reasons Paleolithic people used fire.
Answer: Any two of these: warmth, cooking, light, protection.
Agriculture
Question:
What is agriculture?
Answer: The cultivation of plants and animals to sustain life — farming.
Nomad
Question:
What is a nomad?
Answer: Someone who moves from place to place searching for food and shelter and does not have a permanent home.
Beringia
Question:
What was Beringia?
Answer: A land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age.
Question:
What is the biggest difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic ways of getting food?
Answer:
Paleolithic: people mostly found food through hunting and gathering.
Neolithic: people began producing food through agriculture.
Stone Tools
Question:
Why are stone tools considered technology?
Answer: Because technology is human knowledge used to create better tools and equipment, and stone tools were tools/weapons used by early humans.
Domestication
Question:
What does domestication mean?
Answer: Taming wild animals to benefit humans and adapting plants for human use, including breeding animals.
Surplus
Question:
What does surplus mean?
Answer: An extra or larger quantity than what is needed.
Human Origins
Question:
According to the slideshow, where do scientists believe the first modern humans came from?
Answer: Africa.
Question:
Put these in the correct order:
Specialized jobs → Agriculture → Surplus → Permanent settlements
Answer:
Agriculture → Permanent settlements → Surplus → Specialized jobs
Ice Age
Question:
What major event marked the end of the Paleolithic Era according to the slideshow?
Answer: The end of the Ice Age.
Irrigation
Question:
Why was irrigation important to early civilizations?
Answer: It added water to land/soil, helped domesticate plants, and allowed civilizations to grow plants away from rivers.
Specialization
Question:
Why did food surplus lead to specialization of labor?
Answer: Because there was enough food that not everyone had to farm, so people could learn different trades/jobs such as pottery, weaving, or metalworking.
Adaptation
Question:
Name three ways early humans adapted to their natural environment.
Answer: Any three:
Question:
Why would a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer be more likely to move than a Neolithic farmer?
Answer:
Hunter-gatherers followed available food and animal migration, while farmers could produce food where they lived and build permanent settlements.
Paleolithic Life
Question:
A group follows animals as they migrate, gathers plants, has no permanent home, and uses stone weapons. What era are they living in, and what type of society are they?
Answer: The Paleolithic Era and they are hunter-gatherers/nomads.
Agricultural Revolution
Question:
What major change happened about 10,000 years ago that changed how humans lived?
Answer: Some hunter-gatherer societies began producing their own food and building permanent, year-round settlements to grow crops.
Civilization
Question:
According to the slideshow, what is a civilization?
Answer: A well-organized and culturally developed society.
River Valleys
Question:
Name the river valley where farming began developing about 10,000 years ago, according to the slideshow.
Answer: The Tigris-Euphrates River Valley.
Question:
Explain how one discovery—agriculture—could eventually lead to larger populations, trade, different jobs, and civilizations.
Answer:
Agriculture allowed people to produce their own food and settle permanently. Producing food could create a surplus, which supported population growth and trade. Because not everyone needed to farm, people could specialize in different jobs. These changes helped organized societies and civilizations develop.