Vocab
The study of the past through artifacts
Archaeology
What is the "out-of-Africa" theory?
The theory that humans started in Africa and spread to Europe and Asia
What revolutionary development marked the Neolithic Age?
Systematic Agriculture
What rivers are Mesopotamia located between?
Tigris and Euphrate
What is a primary source?
Writing from the authors perspective and experience.
The study of culture
Anthropology
How did the Paleolithic people survive?
They were Hunters and gathers, and moved from place to place (nomads)
What does Neolithic mean?
New Stone Age
What kind of religion did the Sumerians believe in?
Polytheistic
What is a secondary source?
Location, Place, Region, Human-Environmental Innovations, Migration
Location, Place, Region, Human-Environmental Inevtions, Migration.
How did fire improve the lives of Paleolithic people?
They were able to stay warm during the winter and use it for cooking.
What were the first crops and domesticated animals?
Wheat & Barley
Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats
Name two of the inventions that Sumerians invented.
Wagon Wheel, Mathematics, Astronomy, Writing, irrigation system, drainage system.
Pictures or symbols that represent an object or an idea is called...
Pictograms
What tools do scientist use to date artifacts and fossils?
Why are the caves in the France important to prehistory?
They found cave drawing there
A complex high organized social order is...
A civilization
City-State
The study of past events
History
People who move from place to place are known as?
Nomads
Paleolithic Age means
Old Stone Age
Why were writing and art important in Neolithic society?
Keeping accurate records of the cities and culture
What new architecture did the Sumerians introduce?
Arches and domes
What does BC stand for?
Before Christ