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THE TIME BEFORE PEOPLE LEARNED HOW TO WRITE IS CALLED?
NEOLITHIC
PALEOLITHIC
PREHISTORY
ARTIFACT
ARCHAEOLOGY IS...
THE STUDY OF THE PAST
THE TIME BEFORE WRITING
THE OLD STONE AGE
SOMETHING LEFT BEHIND FROM PAST PEOPLE
A PRODUCT OF HUMAN SKILL THAT IS LEFT BEHIND IS CALLED A/AN?
CIVILIZATION
CULTURE
ARTIFACT
ARCHAEOLOGY
THE PALEOLITHIC AGE MEANS...
THE OLD STONE AGE
THE NEW STONE AGE
THE RIGHT AGE
THE WRONG AGE
PEOPLE WHO HUNT MEAT AND GATHER EGGS, NUTS, AND BERRIES ARE CALLED?
FARMERS
HUNTER/GATHERERS
LAZY
DOMESTICATED
THE NEOLITHIC AGE REFERS TO...
THE OLD STONE AGE
THE NEW STONE AGE
ARCHAEOLOGY
PREHISTORY
RAISING OR TAMING ANIMALS FOR FOOD AND WORK IS CALLED?
NEOLITHIC AGE
DOMESTICATION
AGRICULTURE
HUNTER/GATHERER
FARMING PLUS RAISING ANIMALS FOR FOOD OR WORK IS CALLED?
DOMESTICATION
REVOLUTION
AGRICULTURE
WORK
EVERYTHING THAT MAKES UP WHO YOU ARE (CLOTHES, FOOD, MUSIC, RELIGION) IS CALLED YOUR...
AGRICULTURE
ARTIFACT
CIVILIZATION
CULTURE
A GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF FARMING, SCIENCE, WRITING, GOVERNMENT, AND THE ARTS FORM A WHAT?
CULTURE
CIVILIZATION
NEOLITHIC AGE
COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING PEOPLE INTO CLASSES BY MONEY (UPPER AND LOWER CLASSES) IS CALLED?
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
PREHISTORY
CIVILIZATION
ANY INNOVATION OR INVENTION THAT MAKES LIFE EASIER FOR PEOPLE IS CALLED...
TECHNOLOGY
RELIGION
CULTURE
CIVILIZATION
A SET OF SPIRITUAL BELIEFS OR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN IS CALLED?
TECHNOLOGY
RELIGION
CIVILIZATION
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
ON A TIME LINE BCE AND BC ARE THE SAME THING BUT WHAT DOES BCE STAND FOR
BEFORE CHRIST EXISTED
BEFORE COMMON ERA
BEEF CHICKEN ERA
A LONG TIME AGO
ON A TIMELINE C.E. STANDS FOR...
CHRIST EXISTED
COMMON ERA
CELEBRATE EVERYTHING
CHICKENS ETERNITY
SOMEONE WHO SEES/EXPERIENCES AN EVENT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE...
SECONDARY SOURCE
NOT TRUSTWORTHY
PRIMARY SOURCE
A LIAR
A SECONDARY SOURCE IS SOMEONE WHO WROTE ABOUT AN EVENT BUT...
SAW THE EVENT HAPPEN
DID NOT SEE THE EVENT HAPPEN
IS UNTRUSTWORTHY
SELLS THE STORY FOR MONEY
WHEN EXAMINING ARTIFACTS FROM PREHISTORY WHAT IS THE HARDEST QUESTION TO ANSWER?
WHY DID THEY CREATE THOSE ARTIFACTS
WHEN DID THEY CREATE THEM
WHERE DID THEY CREATE THEM
WHAT ARE THEY
HISTORIANS LIKE TO LOOK AT THINGS THAT THEY CAN...
TOUCH
READ
LOOK AT
EAT
WHICH TYPE OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ADAPT TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT?
ARCHAEOLOGISTS
HISTORIANS
GEOGRAPERS
GEOLOGISTS
People who have no permanent home.
Neolithic
Nomad
Archaeologist
Domesticate
A period of time during which people made tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture.
Stone Age
Domesticate
Agriculture
Migration
The science or practice of farming.
Domesticate
Migration
Agriculture
Nomad
Hardened remains of plants and animals:
fossils
artifacts
hominids
deities
Things left behind by a group of people:
deities
artifacts
nomads
surpluses
Dieties:
Early humans
Gods and goddesses
scientists
Farmers
The different types of housing (igloos, caves, mud huts, grass huts) are the result of
Contact with other cultures
Adaptations to the environment
Religious beliefs
Social Structure
The earliest human remains have been found on the continent of
Europe
Asia
Africa
South America
What is Archaeology?
the study of dinosaurs
the study of plants
the study of early people and their artifacts
the study of human evolution
Early people stopped moving from place to place with the development of
Agriculture
Iron
The wheel
Bows and arrows
A clay pot is an example of an
agricultural settlement
archaeologists
fossil
artifact
The Neolithic Era is also known as the
Prehistory
Old Stone Age
Archaeology
New Stone Age
What archaeological site is this?
Aleppo
Stonehendge
Catalhoyuk
Jericho
This picture is an example of
agriculture
cave art
archaeology
early writing
Another word for farming is
Migration
Agriculture
Artifact
Nomads
Modern day humans like us are called
Neanderthals
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Homo Habilis
The first humans to walk upright were
Neanderthals
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Homo Sapiens
Why is the development of Agriculture so important?
People had more food
People started to settle in one place
Both A and B
People started to make tools
When were animals domesticated?
Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Era
Archaeologists study dinosaur bones.
True
False
The earliest humans lived in permanent houses.
True
False
Agriculture is another name for hunting
True
False
What term means to supply water to the land, usually through channels?
irrigation
prehistory
innovation
division of labor
What term is the action or process of changes or improvements?
innovation
prehistory
division of labor
irrigation
What term is the era AFTER the writing has been invented?
history
river valley
prehistory
agriculture
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
freedom from life in bondage
a religious movement
a lifestyle change from hunter-gatherer to farmer
a revolt from slavery
What made it possible for early people to live as farmers?
favorable climate
domestication of animals
invention of the wheel
weaving skills
Increase in the food supply leads to
an increase in population
a decrease in disease
a reduction in development
growth in civilization
What is the best way to describe your ancestor?
your mom
a person from the past
a historical figure
a person from whom you are descended
What is a fossil?
A person who is super old.
A past relative
A trace, print, or the remains of a plant or animal of a past age preserved in earth or rock.
A hand-held object made by humans.
Choose the answer in order from least to greatest.
decade, millennium, century
century, decade, millennium
decade, century, millennium
Having a particular job
artifact
culture
specialization
career
A big change in the way people live
revolution
prehistory
specialization
technology
What is the most important event in history?
Telephone
Irrigation
Kings/Queens
Farming
Adaptation
the ability to survive and change with an environment
does not change
Hominids
It means mankind and anything that looks and acts like mankind.
A whale is an example of this.
Flaking
technique used by hunters to shape stones
technique used by fisherman to spear crabs
An extra supply
anthropology
excavation site
surplus
agriculture
A method of estimating the age of something after it has died
social division
carbon dating
domesticate
archaeology
A natural feature of Earth's surface such as a valley, plain, hill, or mountain
anthropology
glacier
landform
technology
Different
surplus
climate
migrate
diverse
When animals, plants, and humans no longer exist they are...
extinct
excluded
exhaustion
hiatus
Hypothesis or unproved assumption
theory
excavate
fact
fossil
To carefully dig up land
excavate
fossil
theorize
hominid
A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city
ziggurat
cuneiform
fossil
paleolith
“Wedge-shaped”; a system of writing developed by the Sumerians
cuneiform
ziggurat
neolith
fossil
Why was control of fire such an important technological development? Select all answers that apply.
Fire provided light in dark places, so humans could create art in caves and stay up later.
Fire provided warmth, so we could live in colder regions.
Food could be cooked, giving humans more nutrients and making food taste better.
Humans gathered around fires to socialize.
Archaeologists can be compared to what other job?
Explorer
Detective
Crime Scene Investigator
All of the above
A strip of land connecting two continents.
Mesolithic
Tool
Migrate
Land Bridge
These are huge stone monuments.
Tools
Hominid
Megaliths
Hut
The freezing times are called?
Snow Age
Monsoon Age
Glacier Age
Ice Age
All of the above
A relative who lived in the past.
Anthropologist
Megaoliths
Hominids
Ancestor
Many of the earliest civilizations were located primarily near
mountains
oceans
Africa
rivers
A person who studies plants is a _________________.
Botanist
Plantologist
Herbologist
Zoologist
B.C. means _______________ ________________.
Before Church
Before Cafeteria
Before Calling
Before Christ
A.D. means ______ __________ or “In the year of our LORD.”
After Death
After Dark
Anno Domini
After Dude
What word means a large division of time?
era
archaeology
evidence
artifact
What word means to show proof or indication that something is true?
primary sources
secondary sources
evidence
bias
