Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Bronze Age
Vocab
Miscellaneous
100

People that travel from place to place in search of food

What/who are nomads?

100

The English meaning of the word Neolithic.

What is "new stone"?

100

The popular form of government during this time period where the leading position was passed down from parents to children. Leaders were called kings or queens

What is a monarchy?

100

The science of farming

What is agriculture?

100

A time when glaciers covered much of Earth's land and exposed land bridges between continents.

What is an Ice Age?

200

The continent ancient people originated and migrated from.

What is Africa?

200

The taming of wild animals for human purposes

What is domestication?

200

The main type of tools used by the lower classes during the Bronze Age

What are stone tools?

200

A place people worship during ancient times.

What is a shrine?

200

The area named for a specific moon-like shape and its rich soil.

What is the fertile crescent? 

300

The main job that women fulfilled in Paleolithic times.

What is gathering?

300

The geographic feature that the first civilizations developed around.

What are rivers?

300

The metals mixed to make bronze

What are tin and copper?

300

A system that supplies water to dry land through ditches, pipes, or streams.

What is irrigation

300

Believed to be the first animal to be domesticated

What are wolves/dogs?

400

The hard stone that Paleolithic people made their tools from.

What is flint?

400

An extreme change affecting people's lifestyles

What is a revolution?

400

Formed to protect people, their homes, and their food supply through laws or action.

What is government?

400

Someone that specializes in a certain craft (tailors, blacksmiths, cooks, etc.)

What is an artisan?

400

A complex society formed through a combination of cities, government, religion, specialization, social classes, writing and art.

What is civilization?

500

The year the Paleolithic Age is believed to have ended

What is the year 8000 B.C.E.?

500

The civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Means "the land between rivers" in Greek

What is Mesopotamia?

500

The 3 Mesoamerican cultures

What are the Olmecs, Zapotecs, and Chavin?

500

The ranking of people in a group

What is a hierarchy?

500

The practice of seasonal migration, where a base would be maintained for crops to grow.

What is seminomadic?