Vocabulary
What is considered the "Old Stone Age"?
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered part of the earth were the...
What is the Ice Age?
A place where people worship.
What is a shrine?
Buildings in Jericho and Catalhukuk were built close together to provide more __________ for the people.
What is protection?
By analyzing _____________ left behind, historians have discovered that early humans participated in many of the same activities that we do today.
What are artifacts?
"New Stone Age"
What is the Neolithic Age?
These people moved around from place to place in search of food.
What is a nomad?
Animals carried heavy loads or pulled what?
What are plows?
These people began domesticating animals and growing food on a regular basis.
What is Neolithic people?
Historians piece together the credible evidence and draw conclusions. They use their own thinking and knowledge of the past to _______________, oe explain the meaning of events.
What is interpret?
To tame animals for human use.
What is domesticate?
What are some advancements in technology made by the Paleolithic people.
What is making fire, creating language, making simple tools and shelter?
Where is the largest concentration of Neolithic sites in the Fertile Crescent?
What is Jericho?
Why did people settle on water?
What is fertile land, fish, and water?
What group of people belonged in the middle of the social class pyramid in early civilizations?
What are artisans, craftspeople and farmers.
The act of training for a particular job.
What is specialization?
A land bridge from Asia to North America was exposed. What was the cause of this effect?
What is the water level of the oceans was lower?
The biggest and earliest known Neolithic communities were located in what region?
What is Southwest Asia?
What group of people belonged in the middle of the social class pyramid in early civilizations?
What are artisans, craftspeople and farmers.
How can historians, looking at the same reliable evidence, give different historical interpretations?
What is they have different beliefs or bias.
Tools created to solve a problem/complete a task.
What is technology?
The major difference between Paleolithic people and Neolithic people.
What is hunting and gathering during the Paleolithic Age and farming in the Neolithic Age?
Catalhuyuk is located in present-day?
What is Turkey?
The development of language made it easier for people to work together to pass on what?
What is knowledge?
Characterisitics that set some of the cultures of early civilizations apart.
What is different religions, social structures, and languages?