Prehistoric Era Concepts and Terms

Define prehistory

• Paleolithic Age

• People changed from being nomads to settled farmers

• the time before writing (any time before 3500 BCE)

• Neolithic Age; 9000 BCE to 3200 BCE

What is another name for the Old Stone Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age; 9000 BCE to 3200 BCE

• the time before writing (any time before 3500 BCE)

• Food producers

What are nomads

• People changed from being nomads to settled farmers

• Paleolithic Age

• Ethiopia in East Africa (Lucy was found there)

• people that moved from place to place following food

What is another name for the New Stone Age? When did this occur?

• Neolithic Age; 9000 BCE to 3200 BCE

• Paleolithic Age

• the time before writing (any time before 3500 BCE)

• River valleys; conditions favored farming

What change did it bring

• people that moved from place to place following food

• People changed from being nomads to settled farmers

• The Nile River

• Good

What did it enable people to become for the 1st time?

• Farmers

• The first cities

• Food Producers

• Cuneiform

What appeared when civilizations began to emerge

• The Nile River

• Neolithic Age; 9000 BCE to 3200 BCE

• River Valleys

• The first cities

What did the first 4 civilizations surface near? Why?

• The first cities

• Good; because the Nile deposited a layer of rich silt

• River valleys; conditions favored farming

• River Valleys

Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead?

• They believed they would need it in the afterlife

• Cuneiform

• They believed it was needed

• Good; because the Nile deposited a layer of rich silt

What is deposited each year by the annual flood of the Nile?

• The Nile River

• Silt

• Good; because the Nile deposited a layer of rich silt

• The Wheel