Chapter 1.1

Question 1

What is prehistory

Answer 1

The long period of time before people invented writing - prehistory.

Question 2

What are primary and secondary sources?

Answer 2

Primary - Who ever was their - Ex.an article written at that time, a letter written by a soldier.

Secondary - Putting it all together in an explanation. - Ex. Telling what happened at ghetisburg.

Question 3

When did we start investigating prehistory?

Answer 3

Investigating Prehistory began 150 years ago

Question 4

What did Mary and Louis find? And where?

Answer 4

Ancient clues found the n East Africa: Mary and Louis Leakey searched for clues in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge (1930s)
Dated back 1.7 to 2.1 million years ago

Question 5

What did Donald Johanson find? And when?

Answer 5

1974 - additional evidence found by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia, found single hominid skeleton - named her “Lucy”.

Question 6

What was the first group of humans to use tools?And when?

Answer 6

2 million years ago - Homo habilitation - “handy man” first group to work with stone tools.

Question 7

When did homo erectus appear and what was was special about him?

Answer 7

Also, Homo erectus - appeared 2 million years ago - upright man - had bigger brains can use fire, and axes

Question 8

When did homo erectus disappear?

Answer 8

Between 250,000 and 100,000 years ago, Homo Erectus disappeared and a new group emerged called Homo sapiens - in which modern human beings belong in.

Question 9

Which group came after homo erectus?

Answer 9

Homo sapiens

Question 10

When did the Neanderthals disappear

Answer 10

50,000 and 30,000 years ago, the Neanderthals disappeared, leaving early modern humans as the only hominids on Earth.

Question 11

When did written records began to be kept?

Answer 11

Written records began to be kept 5,000 years ago.