Section 1.1-1.2

Question 0

Archaeologist

Answer 0

A scientist who find and analyze the physical remains left by early people. ( like Indiana Jones) Example: art, artifacts, architecture, remains

Question 1

Anthropologist

Answer 1

A scientist who studies all aspects of humanity…physical, cultural, and archeological ; how humans interact with each other.

Question 2

Historians

Answer 2

Synthesize the information ( like into a book like ours)

Question 3

Where do we come from?

Answer 3

3.6 Million years ago, the first hominid footprints in East Africa, near Tanzania,3.5 Million years ago, “ Lucy” in Ethiopia.

Question 4

Prehistory

Answer 4

Refers to the long period of time before people invented systems of writing. ??? to 2500 BCE.

Question 5

If you cannot read about these people, how do we know about them?

Answer 5

Artifacts

Question 6

Artifact

Answer 6

Something made or given shape by humans such as a tool, or a work of art.

Question 7

How is an artifact different from a fossil?

Answer 7

An artifact is something made by humans, a fossil comes from animals.

Question 8

Where would you imagine that earlier people would migrate towards?

Answer 8

People would migrate towards animals, climate and vegetation.

Question 9

The Paleolithic Age is also know as the ____________

Answer 9

Old Stone Age

Question 10

When did the Paleolithic Age take place?

Answer 10

2.5 Million to 8,000 BCE.

Question 11

What inventions were discovered?

Answer 11

Invention of: Tools, fire, and development of spoken language.

Question 12

Religion

Answer 12

Animism or fertility. Goddess buried dead.

Question 13

Nomadic

Answer 13

Move from place to place ( Bands 25-70)

Question 14

The Paleolithic Age has _______/_________

Answer 14

Hunters/ Gatherers

Question 15

Australopithecines

Answer 15

First Human to walk upright

Question 16

Homo Habilis

Answer 16

First human to make stone tools

Question 17

Homo erectus

Answer 17

Remarkably large brain

Question 18

Neanderthal

Answer 18

First to have religion

Question 19

Cro-Magnan

Answer 19

First modern humans- created art.

Question 20

The Neolithic Age is also know as the ______________.

Answer 20

New Stone Age

Question 21

The Neolithic Age was from ______ /______ BCE

Answer 21

8,000-2,500 BCE

Question 22

What new things were discovered in the Neolithic Age?

Answer 22

Polish stone tools, make pottery, crowing crops/ raised animals, small settlement- increased population

Question 23

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

Answer 23

People who knew how to farm in 8000 BCE

Question 24

How did the agricultural revolution happen?

Answer 24

Women scattered berries that turned into crops and climate changes.

Question 25

What are early farming methods?

Answer 25

The slash and burn method: to burn the entire field, and the ashes made the soil very rich

Question 26

What was the domestication of animals like in the Agricultural a Revolution?

Answer 26

Included horses, dogs, goats, and pigs. At first drove herds to rocky ravines, then to human made enclosures

Question 27

Arrival of villages/ farming in the Agricultural Revolution

Answer 27

Simultaneous emerge, particularly in or around river valley’s. Ex: Africa, China, Mexico/ Central America, Peru.