Chapter Two Study Guide Flashcards
Elephant like creature
Mammoth
A relative who lived in the past
Ancestor
Move to new places
Migrate
Farming
Agriculture
A monument in England, megalith
Stonehenge
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans
Domestication
The times that the world began to experience long periods of freezing weather
Ice Ages
Archaeologist who made important discoveries about prehistory, found some of the earliest ancestors
Mary Leakey
To divide among a group of people
Distribute
One of the earliest ancestors of humans, name means “southern ape”
Australopithecus
The time before there was writing
Prehistory
Huge stones used as monuments
Megaliths
A strip of land connecting two continents
Land Bridge
True or False? Early people believed in gods such as the thunder god.
True
True or False? The first human made shelters, called pit houses, were pits in the ground with roofs or branches and leaves.
True
True or False? Early people learned about fire from rubbing two rocks together.
False, sticks
True or False? One way prehistoric people adapted to their environments was to create tools to process food.
True
True or False? During the Mesolithic Era people settled in new lands.
True
To study prehistory, historians rely on the work of archaeologists and _________.
Anthropologists
Land bridges allowed for __________ Age people to move around the world.
Stone
Simple tools like ___________ were used for about 2 million years.
Choppers
By 9000 BC, people lived all over the continents except _____________.
Antarctica
Using large animals greatly improved the ability of people to ________.
Farm
