Chapter 1
This ability gave hominids the ability to travel long distances more easily. They were also able to spot threatening animals and carry food and children.
What is walking upright?
This gender is accredited with being the first people to farm.
Who are women?
Economic and Social changes resulted from a surplus of what within agricultural villages?
What is the food supply?
This is a people's unique way of life.
What is culture?
These two people are the first two created by God.
Who are Adam and Eve?
This is a scientist who works like a detective to uncover the story of prehistoric peoples.
The Middle East, The Nile River Basin, The Indus River Basin, The Yellow River Basin, and Tehuacan Valley are all areas where this practice first developed.
What is agriculture?
The growth of civilizations led to the need of this institution to establish laws and rule over people.
What is government?
This is a human-made object, such as a tool or jewelry that has been found by an archeologist.
What is an artifact?
What is the name of the ancient art left behind by people on the walls of caves?
What are cave paintings?
What is the name of a scientist who studies fossils - evidence of early life preserved in rocks?
The supply of this resource played a key role in the life of hunter-gatherers who settled into farming villages.
What is the food supply?
Scribes invented the earliest written language of cuneiform to keep up with what?
What are records?
Also known as the agricultural revolution, this revolution had far-reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This is a place where God placed the first two humans.
What is the Garden of Eden?
Advancements such as the invention of tools, mastery over fire, and the development of language all stem from this prehistoric period.
What is the Stone Age?
This is the name given to nomadic groups whose food supply depend on hunting animals and collecting plants for food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
This is a long-lasting pattern of organization in a community.
What is an institution?
This term refers to the time when people began using bronze, rather than copper and stone, to fashion tools and weapons.
What is the Bronze Age?
Scientists who are specifically trained to uncover the story of prehistoric peoples.
Who are archaeologists?
This body part is crucial for tasks such as picking up small objects and making tools.
What is an opposable thumb?
This is the act of taming animals.
What is domestication?
Which of the following is NOT one of the key traits of a civilization?
1: Advanced Cities
2: Domestication of Animals
3: Improved Technology
4: Complex Institutions
What is 4?
What is the Domestication of Animals?
This term is often defined as a complex culture with five key aspects: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.
What is culture?
What are anthropologists?