1. Prehistory Flashcards
prehistory
period of time before written records
Paleolithic Age
- Old Stone Age
- humans foraged for food
Homo habilis
- “handy man”
- first to make stone tools
Homo erectus
- “upright man”
- traveled widely
Neanderthals
- our closest human relative
- evidence for sophisticated behavior, such as burying dead
Homo sapiens
- “wise man” or “thinking man”
- us
hunter-gatherer
hunts wild animals and gathers wild plants
culture
the shared beliefs, practices, and traditions of a group
Neolithic Age
- New Stone Age
- humans started to settle
the Agricultural Revolution
term used to describe the major historical development that occurred during Neolithic Age
domestication
human intervention that changes the physical characteristics of wild plants and animals
sedentary
settled; nonmigratory
agrarian society
- agriculture is the foundation of economy
- villages, towns, cities
pastoral society
- domesticated animals are the foundation of economy
- move seasonally to find pasture and water (nomadic)
Jericho
- Neolithic agrarian society
- oldest continuously inhabited city on the planet
Çatalhöyük
- Neolithic agrarian society
- large and prosperous
Stonehenge
- megalithic structure
- built by Neolithic agrarian society
- modern-day England
Indo-Europeans
- Neolithic pastoral society
- migrated, spread their language
cultural diffusion
the spread of ideas, inventions, or other cultural elements from one society to another
megalithic structure
- large stone structures, most created during Neolithic period
- mega = large
- lithic = stone
Old World
Afro-Eurasia
New World
the Americas
Eurasian Steppes
Fertile Crescent
