Prehistory
Prehistory
Prehistory
Prehistory
Prehistory
100
A time when people used stone to make tools and weapons
What is Stone Age?
100
The date "A.D. 1" should appear where on this timeline.
What is just after 1 B.C.
100
A government led by a king or a queen
What is a monarchy?
100
Where the people of Çatalhöyük put the doors to their homes.
What is on their roofs?
100
The discovery of this metal began the Bronze Age
What is bronze?
200
Paleolithic means
What is Old Stone?
200
Neolithic means
What is New Stone Age?
200
Descendants were traced through the mother
What is matrilineal?
200
people who regularly move from place to place to survive
Who are nomads?
200
Mesoamericans first began domesticating maize here
What are in caves?
300
This major change in human behavior happened in the Neolithic Age
What is farming?
300
Fire improved life for Paleolithic people by
providing warmth, light, scaring away animals, and for cooking
300
Name a tool invented during the Neolithic Age
What are sickles, hoes, and millstones?
300
The continent Faiyum was located on
What is Africa?
300
Systemic Agriculture is
What is growing food on a regular basis?
400
This event helped people migrate from Asia to North America.
What is the Ice Age?
400
Having people do different jobs based on skills
What is specialization?
400
The world's first temple
What is Göbekli Tepe?
400
The crop grown along the Huang He river by the Yangshao culture
What is millet?
400
The use of this type of rock lead to a major breakthrough in Paleolithic technology.
What is Flint?
500
Cultural hearths had these 5 traits in common
What are cities, complex institutions, specialized workers, record keeping, and improved technology?
500
A society with cities, government, religion, and social structures
What is civilization?
500
The archaeological evidence that demonstrates that Çatalhöyük was an advanced culture
What is evidence of buildings, specialization, religion, and farming
500
Cultural hearths shared these geographic similarities
What are mild climates, fertile land, and access to rivers.
500
The process by which cultures interact and spread from one area to another
What is cultural diffusion?