Chapt 3,4 Revision

Question 1

Meaning of Colonies?

Answer 1

Country’s or regions taken over and controlled by another state.

Question 2

Meaning of Catal huyuk ?

Answer 2

Probly the worlds first city in modern day Turkey

Question 3

Meaning of Hunter -gatherers?

Answer 3

People who live by hunting animals and gathering food from the wild

Question 4

Meaning of Cuneiform?

Answer 4

A writing system in which lines were drawn as wedge shaped marks

Question 5

Meaning of Agriculture?

Answer 5

Farming and herding animals

Question 6

Meaning of fossils?

Answer 6

Remains of plants or animals found in rocks

Question 7

Meaning of palaeontologist?

Answer 7

A scientists who studies fossils

Question 8

Meaning of homo-ergaster

Answer 8

The first human-like species to appear in Africa

Question 9

Meaning of Middens?

Answer 9

Coastal refuse heaps that contain evidence of the past

Question 10

Meaning of nomadic?

Answer 10

Moving from place to place rather than living in one settled community.

Question 11

Meaning of Fertile Crescent

Answer 11

the area now mainly covered by what we know as Jordan, Syria,Lebbanon aswell as Israel

Question 12

Meaning of Flint ?

Answer 12

A very hard stone useful for tools and making sparks to start fires