Paleolithic vs. Neolithic
This age created systematic agriculture or growing food on a regular basis.
Neolithic Age
Neolithic
Began about 8000 B.C.E and lasted until about 4000 B.C.E. "New Stone"
Neolithic Age
tools and methods crafted to preform tasks
Technology
Hunting-Gathering
This age invented the ability to use fire.
Near what type of landforms did Neolithic villages form?
Rivers and Fields
to tame animals for human use
Domesticate
Monarchy
Tents made of animal skin, caves
Started to create languages
Paleolithic
What type of government was created at this time?
Monarchy
Growing food on a regular basis
Systemic agriculture
Nomads gave up their hunting/gathering way of life and began living in settled communities.
Agricultural Revolution
What role did men do in the Paleolithic era?
What role did women do in the Paleolithic era?
Men: Mostly Hunted
Women: Mostly gathered and took care of the kids
Neolithic
The most important event in human history
Agricultural Revolution
were long periods of extreme cold that effect all of the earth.
Ice Age
People who regularly move from place to place.
Nomads
The ice ages happened during this age.
Paleolithic age
What are the benefits to the Neolithic building settled communities
Can be one of the following:
Provided Greater security
Steady food supplies
Created a healthier growing population
People took up specific jobs as their talents allowed.
Specialization
A group of people with a shared Geography, beliefs, laws, and customs.
Civilization
How did humans change to survive the Ice Age
They changed their diets, started eating more fat.
They learned how to build studier shelters.
They used fire to help them stay warm.