Chapter 1, Section 1
Another name for the Paleolithic Era.
What is Old Stone Age?
An unwritten account of events that is often passed down through the generations as stories or songs.
What are Oral Histories?
When you have extra of something.
What is a surplus?
The exchange of goods.
What is trade/trading?
These were attacked in New York City on September 11, 2001.
What are the Twin Towers or the World Trade Center?
Another name for scientists who study artifacts.
What are Archaeologists?
This marked the beginning of the transition from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age.
What is the creation of agriculture?
This means "Middle America"
What is Mesoamerica?
The organizing and storing of information
What is record keeping?
The place where you keep track of the money in your checking account.
What is the Check Register?
Woolly Mammoths, Giant Ground Sloths, and Sabre Tooth Tigers are all examples of classification of animals, roughly translated to mean "large animals."
What are megafauna?
This is another name for the growing of plants, and rearing of animals, so that they are useful to humans.
What is Domestication?
The places where new ideas, practices, and technology began.
What are Cultural Hearths?
An organization set up to make and enforce rules in a society.
What is the government?
A good becomes this when it leaves a country.
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is Migration?
These people hunts animals and gather wild plants to eat.
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
Tracing your descendants through the mother rather than the father.
What is matrilineal?
The world's first temple.
What is Gobleki Tepe?
On a timeline, years with the marker "A.D." are found on this side of the Year 0.
What is the right?
This, the most famous land bridge, connected Siberia to North America.
What is the Beringia?
Most of the earliest farming villages were found in this area.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The process by which cultures interact and spread from one area to another.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The five traits, or characteristics, of a civilization.
What are cities, complex institutions, specialized workers, record keeping, and improved technology?
The Tropic of Capricorn is found at what degree of latitude?
What is 23.5 degrees South?