Era 1: The Peopling of Earth Vocabulary

(“time order”) events are arranged in the order in which they happen

• artifacts

• irrigation

• chronological order

• Prehistory

preserved remains of once-living organisms (plants or animals)

• fossils

• pastoralism (herding)

• domestication

• artifacts

important historical events that have long-lasting effects on human life (Example: farming, fire, the wheel)

• turning points

• hunter-gatherers

• chronological order

• specialization

Old Stone Age

• Agricultural Revolution

• Neolithic

• Prehistory

• Paleolithic

the period of time before written records

• agriculture

• Prehistory

• Neolithic

• turning points

movement from one place to another

• nomad

• migration

• hunter-gatherers

• irrigation

New Stone Age

• artifacts

• city-states

• Paleolithic

• Neolithic

the development of skills in a specific kind of work

• turning points

• pastoralism (herding)

• specialization

• nomad

farming

• agriculture

• artifacts

• irrigation

• domestication

taming of animals

• agriculture

• Paleolithic

• migration

• domestication