World HistoryChapter 1: Lessons 3-5

​Chapter 1: Lessons 3-5

Lesson 3: Early humans left Africa and moved throughout the world

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Era is...

• An abbreviation for Before the Common

  Era, used to tell when something occurred

• Died out, no longer exists

• A period of time

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Fossil is...

• The remains of living things from long

  ago, like bones or marks on a rock

• A genetic code found in cells that

  makes everyone unique

• A human species that no longer exists

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Where did early humans come from?

• North America

• Asia

• Africa

• South America

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How could people sometimes walk from continent to continent during the ice age?

• Ice Bridges

• Land Bridges

• They didn't move around

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What do land bridges connect?

• Oceans

• They don't exist

• two areas

  that are usually separate, allowing

  animals and people to cross.

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Fossils are...

• The remains of living things from long

  ago, like bones or marks on a rock

• People who move from place to place

• To change into a new species over time

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How do scientists know about early human migration?

• Cave drawings

• Fossils

• Land Bridges

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How did early humans move around the world?

• They took airplanes

• They swam across the oceans

•  Land bridges connected continents during ice ages

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How do scientists know about early human migration?

• By studying fossils

• By reading journals

•  By hunting and gathering their food

Lesson 4: Tools made early humans lives easier

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BCE is...

• Died out, no longer exists

• Growing plants and raising animals for food

• An abbreviation for Before the Common

  Era, used to tell when something occurred

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Agriculture is...

• Growing plants and raising animals for food

• People who move from place to place

• A genetic code found in cells that

  makes everyone unique

Open Ended

What made early humans lives easier?

Open Ended

What do you think it means to "make life easier?

Open Ended

What is one tool that helped early humans? how did it help?

Open Ended

Why do you think tools made hunting and fishing easier?

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How did early humans use pottery?

• to

  store and transport the food that people gathered

• They did not use pottery.

• to store the food that early humans grew

• For their trash

Open Ended

What other things did early humans make by hand? (Hint: Use page 18 in your books!)

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What are droughts? (Hint: Picture on the top of page 19!)

• Long periods of rain or snow

• long

  dry periods, due to a

  lack of rain or snow.

• Short period of time that is dry due to lack of rain or snow

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What did early humans use tools for?

• To make evolution faster

• Hunting and making clothes

• Transportation, like cars and trains

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How did pottery help early humans?

•  It was used to save food for droughts and winters

• It was used as a weapon

• It scared off intruders

Lesson 5: The fossil record tells us about early humans

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A neanderthal is...

• A human species that no longer exists

• People who move from place to place

• Died out, no longer exists

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Extinct is...

• A period of time

• Died out, no longer exists

• The remains of living things from long

  ago, like bones or marks on a rock

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DNA is...

• A long period of time with an

  unusually cold climate

• Growing plants and raising animals for food

• A genetic code found in cells that

  makes everyone unique

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A fossil is...

• To change into a new species over time

• The remains of living things from long

  ago, like bones or marks on a rock

• An abbreviation for Before the Common

  Era, used to tell when something occurred

Multiple Choice

What are the closest extinct human relatives to Homo sapiens?

• Homo erectus

• Neanderthals

• Homo habilis

Multiple Choice

Who lived on Earth at the same time as our ancestors?

• Neanderthals

• Dinosaurs

• No one knows

Multiple Choice

When did dinosaurs go extinct? (Hint: Page 20 of you books!)

• Around 100 million years ago

• Around 100 million years ago

• Around 65 million years ago

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Where did the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans most likely live?

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia

• Antartica

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Why do most modern-day humans

have some Neanderthal DNA?

• Modern-day humans are the same as Neanderthals

• Modern-day humans’ ancestors lived and

  interbred with Neanderthals

• Modern-day humans never lived with other human species

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Where did the common ancestor of human species live?

• Asia

• Australia

• Africa

Quiz next week!