Early People Vocab. Practice

A long period of time defined by specific social, cultural, and political characteristics.

• Era

• Turning Point

• Civilization

• Pre- histroy

Moving from one place to another

• Turning point

• Migrate

• Neolithic Revolution

• Specialize

Cultures with systems of religion, education, and government.

• Era

• Surplus

• Civilization

• Domesticate

Training to do a specific task like turning wheat into flour for baking bread.

• Nomads

• Surplus

• Domesticate

• Specialization

A time about 6,000 years ago when people began to settle down in permanent locations.

• Neolithic

• Paleolithic

• Migrated

• Agriculture

People who moved from place to place to meet their basic needs by hunting animals and gathering plants.

• Technology

• Turning Point

• Surplus

• Nomads

A time when a change or changes impact the course of history.

• Turning Point

• Era

• Scarcity

• Natural Resources

A period of time before writing was invented

• Scarcity

• Neolithic Revolution

• Prehistory

• Technology

The lack of a resource in a region.

• Specialize

• Surplus

• Domesticate

• Scarcity

Training animals like sheep, cattle and goats to be useful to people.

• Surplus

• Domesticate

• Nomads

• Paleolithic