Vocab/Key Terms
rich in the substances plants need to grow well; describes soil and land.
What is fertile?
What is tattoos?
Through the discovery/use of ______________, humans no longer had to be nomadic.
What is farming?
TRUE OR FALSE - Crops have not changed since the first farmers began to grow them
What is FALSE?
The study of places and the relationships between people and their environment.
What is geography or geographer?
a time period in which early humans made tools and weapons from stone, wood and bone.
What is the Stone Age?
This is the mountain range was Otzi found in.
What are The Alps (or the Italian Alps)?
All humans once originated from which continent?
What is Africa?
According to our text, name 3 important elements of farming.
Any 3 answer combo of
-rain/water, FERTILE soil, warm and sunny weather, long spring and summer seasons.
The study of the events, people and places of the past.
What is history or historian?
to adapt wild plants for human use or to tame wild animals and breed them for human use.
What is domesticate?
The number of years was Otzi left frozen in the mountains for.
What is 5,300 years?
When humans began to plant and grow their own food, they officially entered this era.
What is the New Stone Age?
The first animal to be domesticated was most likely this.
What is a dog?
(wolf also acceptable)
This is the careful excavation and analyzing of artifacts and ancient remains
What is archaeology or achaeologist?
a person who has no settled home.
What is a nomad?
Name 2 of the items Otzi was found carrying with him?
What are (any combo of 2)
bow and arrow, knife/dagger, copper axe.
Name at least 3 benefits of creating and harnessing fire during the stone age.
What are (any 3 of the following)
-kill bacteria in the food, scare off animals, extending the daylight, ability to move to colder climates, people gathered around it and shared stories/knowledge
What are pastoral nomads?
The study of the way that goods and services are made, sold, or used.
What is economics/economist?
a modern human or member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans.
What is a hominid?
This is what scientists eventually determined to be Otzi's actual cause of death.
What is a brain injury (from a cracked skull)?
The concept of going out and finding food during the Stone Age is known as this
What is hunting and gathering?
Name at least 3 benefits of domesticating animals
transportation, agriculture, meat, milk, skins, wool, war, hunting.
This is the study of how power is achieved and maintained.
What is political science or political scientist?