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| 206695667 | late paleolithic developments | homo sapien sapiens, no major changes in physique or brain size since, speech develops with home erectus, humans manipulate simple tools, erect stature, spread of human species across the world | 0 | |
| 206695668 | how did people get their food in the paleolithic age? | hunting and gathering | 1 | |
| 206695669 | what is the species of which all human descendants originated? | homo sapien sapiens | 2 | |
| 206695670 | how many years ago was the paleolithic age? | 14,000 | 3 | |
| 206695671 | where did homo sapien sapiens originate and when? | africa, 120,000 years ago | 4 | |
| 206695672 | whats another name for the paleolithic age? | the old stone age | 5 | |
| 206695673 | whats another name for the mesolithic age? | the middle stone age | 6 | |
| 206695674 | when did the mesolithic age occur? | c.12,000 B.C.E.- c. 8,000 B.C.E. | 7 | |
| 206695675 | during the mesolithic age there was an improvement in_____ | tool and weapon making | 8 | |
| 206695676 | which animals were domesticated during the mesolithic age? | sheep, cows, pigs, goats | 9 | |
| 206695677 | advances in __________ led to a ____________ during the ___________ age | sailing and fishing, population growth, mesolithic | 10 | |
| 206695678 | what was another name for the neolithic age? | the new stone age | 11 | |
| 206695679 | the new stone age was a time of__________ and __________ | agriculture and civilization | 12 | |
| 206695680 | sedentary | staying in one place | 13 | |
| 206695681 | characteristics of the neolithic revolution | "invention of agriculture," deliberate planting of grains for harvest, people settle permanently in one spot, populations increase, shift from hunting and gathering to farming, development in skilled crafts and sciences, pottery for storage, science of weather and flood patterns | 14 | |
| 206695682 | effects of farming | requires more work, supports larger populations, increase in contagious diseases | 15 | |
| 206695683 | c. 4,000 B.C.E. was the discovery of___ | metals | 16 | |
| 206695684 | the first metal discovered was __________ | copper | 17 | |
| 206695685 | c. 3,000 B.C.E. was called the | bronze age | 18 | |
| 206695686 | during the bronze age there was more efficient ________ | farming | 19 | |
| 206695687 | slash and burn agriculture | burning trees in one area, farming intensely for a few years, and moving on when the soil depleted | 20 | |
| 206695688 | tribal bands | groups of people with strong kinship ties and created long-lasting houses and wells | 21 | |
| 206695689 | 3500 B.C.E. civilization appeared along the _______ rivers | tigris and euphrates | 22 | |
| 206695690 | 3000 B.C.E. civilizations appeared along the ________ river | nile | 23 | |
| 206695691 | 2500 B.C.E. civilizations appeared along the _______ river | indus | 24 | |
| 206695692 | civilization | societies with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and social hierarchy of inequality | 25 | |
| 206695693 | cuneiform | system of writing wedge-like symbols that were developed in the middle east c.3500 B.C.E. | 26 | |
| 206695694 | things to be recorded in civilizations | records, taxes, communication with others-trades and treaties | 27 | |
| 206695695 | written history | history of civilization, not the history of nomads | 28 | |
| 206695696 | nomads | groups of people who wander in search of food, shelter, protection, etc. | 29 | |
| 206695697 | characteristics of tigris-euphrates civilization | mesopotamia-fertile crescent, home of world's first civilization, had no civilizations to imitate | 30 | |
| 206695698 | items invented by the first civilization | bronze, copper, the wheel, pottery, irrigation, art, religion | 31 | |
| 206695699 | sumer is the______________ | civilization along the persian gulf | 32 | |
| 206695700 | sumer accomplishments... | complex agricultural society, mathematics and astronomy, system of numbers (10, 60, 360) | 33 | |
| 206695701 | ziggurats | pyramid-shaped religious temples | 34 | |
| 206695702 | animistic | gods of nature-river, earth, sun, sky etc. | 35 |
