Vocabulary
Of the Ages
Miscellaneous
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
100

It's a person who moves from place to place to find food.

What is a nomad?

100

It began about 8000 BCE and lasted until around 4000 BCE.

What is the Neolithic Age?

100

During the ice ages, ice sheets grew large causing low sea levels which exposed this.

What are land bridges?

100

These three materials were used to make man's first tools and weapons.

What are bone, wood, and stone?

100

This is trading goods or services without the use of money, and it is the basis of the economy of the Stone Age people.

What is the barter system?

200

Tools and methods to perform tasks.

What is technology?

200

A time when early people used stone to make weapons and tools?

What is the Stone Age?

200

These became the primary roles of men in Neolithic settlements?

What are family and community leaders?  

200

To protect themselves from harsh weather, Paleolithic humans slept in these two types of shelters.

What is caves and huts?

200

During the New Stone Age, people settled in villages near these two important resources?

What are fields and water sources?

300

To share or exchange information or knowledge with someone.

What is communicate?

300

This time is also called the Old Stone Age.

What is the Paleolithic Age?

300

This group made up the lowest social class that existed at the end of the Neolithic Age?

What are the enslaved?

300

Stone Age bands were typically led by these two people.

What is a chief and a shaman?

300

This means any change that has an enormous effect on people's way of life?

What is a revolution?

400

To adapt an animal to live with humans for the advantage of the human.

What is domesticate?

400

A time when glaciers covered most of the land.

What is an ice age?

400

This is the earliest form of government.

What is a monarchy?

400

These are three examples of typical tools from the stone age?

What are hand axes, spears, bows, nets, harpoons, arrows, or needles?

400

Abundant food led to specialization, which in turn allowed these people to become skilled workers who made handcrafted goods such as pottery, weapons, or jewelry.

What are artisans?  

500

A place honoring Gods and Goddesses where early humans worshipped.

What is a shrine?

500

The technological breakthrough of mixing copper and tin to form a much stronger metal marked the beginning of this period.  

What is the Bronze Age?

500

The two terms can be used interchangeably, and both mean before year 1.

What is BC and BCE?

500

Archaeologists believe that humans first produced fire by this method.

What is friction?

500

This is thought to be the most important event in human history.

What is the Agricultural Revolution?