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  • A form of technology from Paleolithic or Neolithic Ages:
    Examples: fire, stone tools, wheel, plow, sickle, written language, art forms etc
  • What was an artisan?
    skilled worker
  • Paleolithic cave paintings show what?
    animals, hunting and handprints
  • What people were in the highest level of the social hierarchy?
    rulers, priests, government officials, and warriors
  • Governments developed in early human societies to do what?
    Maintain law & order, protect people & resources, manage food supplies and resources
  • What is a type of government thats led by a king or a queen?
    Monarchy
  • Where did the first civilizations form?
    river valleys
  • What did the Neolithic communities of Jericho & Catalhuyuk have in common?
    Both had a few thousand people
  • groups of people who move from place to place
    nomad
  • How was statues determined in the 1st civilizations?
    Wealth and the job you had
  • complex society
    civilization
  • system of ditches and pipes that move water to dry land
    irrigation
  • Allowed people to focus on tasks like making tools or cloths to become efficient or skills
    specialization
  • How did humans adapt to the harshness of the Ice Age?
    Built sturdier shelters and added fat to their diets
  • Evidence at Neolithic sites shows what?
    People were buried with their valuables and sacrifices were a part of some Neolithic religious rituals
  • Why was it called the Agricultural Revolution?
    The shift from being hunter-gatherers to farmers (agriculture).
  • What people were in the middle level of the social hierarchy?
    free people including farmers, artisans and other workers
  • relating to earliest period of the Stone Age
    Paleolithic
  • scientist who studies objects from the past to learn about human life
    Archaeologist
  • Forms of art during the Bronze Age
    Poetry and large monuments
  • Important technological developments in the Paleolithic Age?
    Controlling fire and development of spoken language
  • How do archaeologists learn about prehistoric people?
    Studying artifacts, cave paintings, & fossils and bones.
  • What are you doing if you are going to tame an animal for human purposes?
    domesticate
  • Put these in order starting with the one that happened first: Neolithic Era, Bronze Age, Paleolithic Era
    Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age
  • What allowed people to start having different jobs?
    A food surplus.
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