Vocabulary
Human-made objects from the past.
What are ARTIFACTS?
Highly mobile people who moved from place to place searching for new sources of food.
Who are NOMADS?
This includes physical, human, and cultural characteristics that can affect the benefits, challenges, and development of a civilization.
What is GEOGRAPHY?
This is why the prehistoric period is called the Stone Age.
What is the USE OF STONE to create tools and weapons?
The excavations at Skara Brae revealed this important aspect about the culture there.
There were SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS and DISTINCTIONS.
A people's unique way of life.
What is CULTURE?
Taming of animals
What is DOMESTICATION?
This caused the involuntary migration of people to warmer areas of the world.
What was the LITTLE ICE AGE?
This supported archaeologists beliefs that Neanderthals developed a for of religion.
What is the DISCOVERY OF A NEANDERTHAL BURIAL SITE? (In Shanidar Cave in Iraq)
Scientists made conclusions that the culture at Yangshao had no social distinctions, but valued equality because of this.
The people of Yangshao were all buried the same way with the same type and amount of pots and bowls.
Ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet needs.
What is TECHNOLOGY?
Complex cultures that consist of at least 5 main characteristics.
What are CIVILIZATIONS?
Because of these 2 things, the study of world history must be flexible.
What are NEW DISCOVERIES and NEW TECHNOLOGY?
This shaped the nomadic life of hunter-gatherers, and the settled life of farmers.
What is FOOD SUPPLY?
What evidence found at Stonehenge helped scientists to believe that women were regarded just as important as the men?
Both men and women were buried at Stonehenge.
Nomadic groups whose food supply depended on collecting plant foods and hunting animals.
Who are HUNTER-GATHERERS?
Digging
What is EXCAVATION?
Paleontologists study these.
What are FOSSILS?
These 3 places pioneered the Agricultural revolution.
Iraq (Jarmo), Mexico, and Thailand.
He is known as the Father of the US Constitution because he was the primary drafter or author of the US Constitution.
Who was JAMES MADISON?
The shift from food-gathering to food producing; Agricultural Revolution
What is the NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION?
The study and writing of history.
What is HISTORIOGRAPHY?
Anthropologists study these.
What are CULTURES?
This was an important security aspect of the permanent settlement in Jericho.
What is the WALL?
Where and when the US Constitution was created.
Where is PHILADELPHIA, September 17, 1787