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Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras

Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras

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Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras

Global History & Geography 9

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Paleolithic Era

  • 5 Things You Should Know

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcC2v1cLXso

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Paleolithic Era

  • Known as the "Old Stone Age" because simple stone tools were used

  • Earliest period in human history

  • People were nomadic: they migrated from place to place in constant search of food

  • They were also known as hunter-gatherers

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Paleolithic Era

  • Food: Hunting and gathering

  • Dwellings: Caves, nomadic people

  • Technology: Digging sticks, spears, axes, and spoken language

  • Religion & Art: Cave paintings, religious statues, and belief in afterlife

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Multiple Choice

The Paleolithic Era is characterized by which of the following...

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Permanent Settlements

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Agriculture

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Nomads

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Domestication

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Neolithic Era

5 Things You Should Know


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrkYxf4798

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Neolithic Era

  • Learned how to farm & use irrigation

  • Began to live in permanent settlements

  • Job specialization (new skilled professions such as tool-making, pottery, weaving, carpentry, etc.)

  • Domestication of animals

  • Division of labor led to gender inequality

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Neolithic Era

  • Food: Farming, domesticated animals

  • Dwellings: Permanent villages, stone houses

  • Technology: Stone tools, polished ax heads, arrowheads, weaving cloth, calendar, wheel

  • Religion & Art: Jewelry, buried dead in earthen tombs

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Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras

Global History & Geography 9

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