Review of PreHistory

Historians think that women were major contributors to specific areas of Neolithic life. What were the two main areas?

• serving as family and community leaders

• overseeing food supplies and weaving textiles

• making pottery and religious shrines

• painting and working in the fields

Examine this Paleolithic tool. How did the creation of basic tools eventually lead to advances in agriculture?

• Civilizations could be conquered with weapons.

• The types of tools developed determined where people settled.

• Smaller and more refined tools could be made using basic tools.

• Hunting became easier through the use of tools.

Look at the chart. What was the cause of the problems early settlements faced in the Neolithic Age?

• climate change

• population growth

• technological innovations

• migration patterns

How were early farmers different from hunter-gatherers?

• They often changed their physical location.

• They usually lived in small bands of 20–30 people.

• They domesticated some animals for human use.

• They ate all the grains that they collected.

Time before there was writing

• Prehistory

• Hominid

• Society

• Flint

The first part of the Stone Age

• Neothic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Kamen Era

• Flint Era

A community of people who share a common culture

• Social circle

• Classmates

• Society

• Government

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

• Hunter-gather

• Hunters

• Gathers

• Waiters

The development of ________________________, or farming, changed human society forever.

• agriculture

• societies

• wood

• metal

Some people learned to ________________________ animals in order to have meat and milk without following wild herds.

• wood

• metal

• train

• domesticate