Prehistory
The period of time before written records.
What is prehistory?
Early civilizations were built next to these.
What are rivers?
A water control system that supplies water to the land.
Irrigation
A man made object of historical significance.
What is an artifact?
A scientist who examines objects to learn about the human past is ........
What is an archaeologist?
Prehistoric people were called this because it was their way of securing food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
An organization that sets the laws and procedures for a society.
What is government?
BCE stands for .....
What is Before Common Era?
Before written language, nomads would communicate through...
cave art/paintings
What is a civilization?
A worker who is skilled at crafting items by hand is a ....
What is an artisan?
A food surplus led to many types of jobs. The term to describe this new realm of jobs is ......
What is specialization?
What is Common Era?
The process of adapting animals for human use.
What is domestication?
The ancient Egyptian civilization began on the banks of the Nile River because....
What is regular flooding which led to fertile soil for farming?
Humans that traveled from place to place in search of food.
What are nomads?
The study of the Earth's surface and the processes that shape it is called ......
What is geography?
List 4 effects of a food surplus:
population growth
trade increased
cities grew and expanded
governments began
job specialization
wealth increased
social classes formed
The New Stone Age began when ......
What is when people began farming & growing their own food?
The major difference between the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age was ....
What is the beginning of farming?
The era during the Stone Age when bones, wood, and stone were used as tools.
What is the Middle Stone Age?
A simple diagram that shows how dates and events relate to one another is a .....
What is a timeline?
The amount of food grown that exceeds a population.
What is an (agricultural) surplus?
People of the Old Stone Age survived by ....
What is hunting and gathering wild plants?
During the period of prehistory, people developed the ability to ....
What is use fire?