Prehistory

The Stone Age is when people made tools and weapons from stone. The earliest part of the Stone Age is the _____ Age. It began about 2.5 million years ago and ended around 8,000BC.

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Ice Age

• Bronze Age

_____ is a hard stone with sharp edges.

Paleolithic people made sharp knives and ax heads.

• Steel

• Flint

• Bronze

• Silver

During the Paleolithic Age, people learned how to make ____. Once people had ____, they could eat cooked food.

• earth

• water

• air

• fire

__________ ___________ helped people in Paleolithic times communicate better with each other.

• Fire discovery

• Spoken language

• Cell phones

• Paleolithic e-mails

Early artists painted the walls of their caves with ______ made from crushed rock mixed with animal fat.

• brushes

• oil

• paints

• chalk

During the Neolithic Age, the levels of the oceans dropped because so much water was taken from the oceans to form the ice.

• True

• False

A ______ ______ is a strip of dry land that was once covered by water.

• land strait

• land bridge

• terrain bridge

• Asian-American trail

What is the biggest achievement of the Neolithic Age?

• agriculture

• copper tools

• flint axes

• spoken language

How did agriculture change the lifestyle of the early peoples?

• They continued to hunt and gather.

• They stopped farming.

• They were still nomads.

• They began to settle.

Farmers grew more food than they could eat. They began to trade food for things they could not make themselves. They could do tasks that matched their talents. This is called _______.

• surplus

• grain

• specialization

• economics