Neolithic Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

A member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water

• Artifact

• Culture

• Nomad

• Civilization

• Paleolithic Age

"New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture

• Neolithic Revolution

• Bronze Age

• Neolithic Age

A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes

• Civilization

• Refinement

• Culture

• Specialization

A member of a biological group including human beings and related species that walk upright

• Hunter-gatherer

• Artifact

• Hominid

• Nomad

a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food.

• Hominid

• Urbanized

• Hunter-gatherer

• Socialist

(750,000 BCE - 10,000 B.C.E.) Old Stone Age. A period of time in human history characterized by the use of stone tools and the use of hunting and gathering as a food source.

• Middle Bronze Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Early Bronze Age

Exchange goods without involving money.

• Entail

• Hunter-gatherer

• Bonanza

• Barter

An object made by human beings; often refers to a primitive tool or other relic from an earlier period

• Nomad

• Civilization

• Cuneiform

• Artifact

the development of skills in a specific kind of work

• Civilization

• Standardization

• Specialization

• Domestication

a farming method in which people clear fields by cutting and burning trees and grasses, the ashes of which serve to fertilize the soil

• Slash-and-burn farming

• Specialization

• Domestication