Early Cultures Hosted by Mrs Tramonte Vocabulary Prehistoric

Early Cultures Hosted by Mrs. Tramonte

Vocabulary Prehistoric People Cultures Stone Age 100 100 200 200 300 300 400 400 500 500

What is technology? The use of skills and tools to meet practical needs. Row 1, Col 1

What are animals, objects and events that were important to them and their culture? The prehistoric people painted…. What? 1, 2

What is to domesticate? To train something to be useful to people is to…. 1, 3

What is the old Stone Age? The period of human prehistory That lasted until about 12, 000 years ago. 1, 4

What is specialization? People training to do a particular kind of work. 2, 1

Who is a hunter-gatherer ? A person whose needs are met by animals and plants. 2, 2

What is civilization? A culture that has developed systems of specialization, religion, learning and government. 2, 3

What is New Stone Age? The period of human history that lasted from 12, 000 -6, 000 years ago. 2, 4

What is Border Cave? ? Home of Old Stone Age hunter and gatherers 3, 1

What is the shelter in Border Cave? • Domesticated plants and animals • Homes were built • Created a food surplus • Time for specialization 3, 2

How agriculture changed the world? • Domesticated plants and animals • Homes were built • Created a food surplus • Time for specialization r 3, 3

What are Stone tools, fire-building and hunting? Examples of Stone Age technology 3, 4

What is agriculture? • The raising of crops and animals for human use. 4, 1

How did the surplus of food lead to specialization? Left over food for the winter gave farmers more time to specialize in other tasks and kinds of work. . 4, 2

What the prehistoric people did to domesticate plants and animals? • Planting seeds • Care for edible plants (wheat, barley, peas and lentils • Breeding animals • Taming animals 4, 3

How the Old Stone Age got its name? Stone tools were the most common technology until the 12, 000 years ago. 4, 4

What is surplus? • An extra supply of something 5, 1

What are signs of religious beliefs? • People were buried with some beads • Believed in some life after death • Thoughts about life and death 5, 2

What is the shelter used by the people of Border Cave? • Keeping watch over the animals movement • Cook campfires to have light in the cave • Dirt floor with grass for bedding 5, 3

What is Anno Domino? What does A. D. stand for? 5, 4