Intro to History/Stone Age

Match the vocabulary word to the definition

• A strip of land caused by low sea levels during the last Ice Age

• Domesticate

• The act of training for a particular job

• Specialization

• To adapt an animal to live with humans for the advantage of humans

• Bronze Age

• An ability gained by the practical use of knowledge

• Land Bridge

• The period of human culture when people began to make and use bronze

• Technology

Based on this picture, what inference can you make about the people of the Paleolithic Age?

• They used swords to hunt.

• They teamed to hunt a single animal.

• They farmed for food.

• created new technology to hunt

If you have a food surplus,

• You need to find more food now.

• You have just enough food.

• You need to go shopping

• You have more food than you need.

How was life changed by the Agricultural Revolution?

• brains grew due to the eating or raw food

• stone tools were used to defend communities

• More people had to hunt to feed the community.

• agriculture led to organized communities.

What is a difference between early farmers and hunter-gatherers?

• Early farmers traveled in groups of 20-30 people.

• Hunter-gathers had the time to specialize in a job.

• Farmers domesticated animals for their use.

• Hunter-gatherers had a surplus of food.

What is the cultural shift that happened during the Neolithic Era called?

• creation of language

• the agricultural revolution

• the age of civilization

• the bronze age

Match the vocabulary word with the definition

• People who moved from place to place as a group to find food for themselves

• Civilization

• Relating to the latest period of the Stone Age

• Agricultural Revolution

• Time period where humans settled in communities and farmed regularly

• Neolithic age

• A more complex culture that has cities, a government, religions, and social class structures

• Nomads

• Relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age

• Paleolithic

In order to express ideas, early humans

• wrote letters

• painted in caves

• played music

• posted on Facebook

What led to the first permanent settlements?

• agriculture

• stone knives

• migration

• language

The Ice Age resulted in people crossing a land bridge from which two continents?

• Europe to Asia

• Asia to North America

• Africa to Asia

• North America to South America