Quiz Practice "Early Humans and the Rise of Civilization"

historian who studies human life in the past by examining the artifacts that people left behind

• archaeologist

• geologist

• cartographer

• social scientist

anything made and used by humans

• tool

• fossil

• artifact

• era

beliefs, customs, practices, and behavior of a group of people

• society

• culture

• civilization

• agriculture

planting food and breeding animals that are useful for humans

• agriculture

• evidence

• revolution

• domestication

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to acquire food

• neanderthals

• hunter-gatherers

• cave men

• farmers

time period when there were consistently freezing temperatures throughout the world

• Ice Age

• Agricultural Revolution

• Glacier

• Neolithic Era

a strip of land connecting two landmasses

• land bridge

• continent

• paleolithic

• domestication

movement from one place to another, in order to establish a new, permanent settlement

• domestication

• agriculture

• population

• migration

Neolithic Era

• old stone age

• middle stone age

• new stone age

• rocky road age

Paleolithic Era

• old stone age

• middle stone age

• new stone age

• rocky road age