Vocab 1
To build by putting parts together.
A way of doing something.
What is a method?
Relating to the earliest period of the stone age.
What is Paleolithic?
The main daily activity of these people was hunting and gathering to feed themselves.
Who were the Paleolithic people?
Tools and weapons made of this material is what gave the earliest part of human history its name.
What is stone?
People who move from place to place as a group to find food
Who are nomads?
A government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent.
The age when humans changed from hunter gatherers to farmers. "The New Stone Age".
What is the Neolithic Age?
Most early civilizations developed in these regions.
What are river valleys?
Before language, these were used by early humans to record their history.
What are cave paintings?
An ability gained by the practical use of knowledge.
What is technology?
The act of training for a particular job.
What is specialization?
Long periods of extreme cold that affected all of Earth.
What were Ice Ages?
These people learned specialized skills and did specific jobs that their talents allowed.
Who are artisans?
During the Paleolithic age, these tools were developed for the new farming lifestyle of humans.
What are hoes, sickles, and mill stones?
What is systematic agriculture?
What is to domesticate?
The time period when people began to melt and mix copper and tin to make a stronger metal used for tools.
What is the Bronze Age?
Humans learned to use fire, find shelter, eat a different diet, and make warm clothes to ___________ to Ice Age conditions.
What is adapt?
These two early technological advances are credited for the survival of early humans.
What are flint and fire?
A place where people worship.
What is a shrine?
Deals with the making, buying and selling of goods and services.
What is an economy?
The earliest part of human history. Includes Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages.
What is the Stone Age?
This big change in human history allowed humans to begin the first civilizations, improve art and language, and develop early religion and government. It also has some negative side effects like deforestation.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
Cities, government, religion, social structures, writing, and art are hallmarks of these (complex cultures)?
What are early civilizations?