Historical Antecedents of the World Flashcards
True or False
Technological advancements arose earlier than scientific discoveries
True
The prehistoric period or when there was human life before records documented human activity roughly dates from ____________
2.5 million years ago to 1,200 B.C.
The Human Condition before Common era is generally categorized in three archaeological periods_____________
- the stone age
- Bronze age
- Iron age
It is the _________ of early humans to survive that allowed them to create several types of technologies
instinct
True or False
The Human Condition Before Common Era have fire for cooking, tools for hunting, and even used stones for cave drawings that record their daily life and activities or illustrate what they observe in nature
True
This era is marked by the invention and use of stone tools by our early human ancestors and the eventual transformation of the society from a culture of hunting and gathering to farming and food production
Stone age
How long did Stone Age lasts?
2.5 ma- 3000BC
What are the available resources to study the Stone Age?
Cave drawings, Unearthed Artifacts,
What are the three separate periods in Stone Age?
- Paleolithic Period
- Mesolithic Period
- Neolithic Period
Paleolithic originated from the words___?
- Paleo - old
- Lithos - stone
Throughout this period of stone age, humans were food gatherers/hunters, depending on hunting wild animals and birds, fishing, and collecting wild fruits, nuts, and berries.
Paleolithic period
What are the humans called during paleolithic period because they have no permanent shelters?
nomads
a carving of a voluptuous woman out of ivory of stone. It is not definite as to what this carving means to the early humans, but historians infer that this is an ancient representation of beauty while for some, a penchant for fertility.
Venus
Clothing made from the fur of the animals they hunted
Fur clothing
Paleolithic period
It is a temporary shelters that they can bring with them and reassemble to a new location (due to their lifestyle).
Pit houses
what are other inventions made of stone during paleolithic period?
ornaments and crude (not polished) hunting tools
This period marked the end of the last Ice Age, which resulted in the extinction of many large mammals (like mammoths) and rising sea levels and climate change that eventually caused man to migrate
Mesolithic period
Mesolithic Period
Humans used small stone tools , now also more polished and sometimes crafted with points and attached to antlers, bone, or wood to serve as spears and arrows known as
Microliths
Mesolithic Period
How was microliths used?
Used for digging the ground and stitching clothes
What was introduced during Mesolithic period , which led to more permanent settlements in villages
Agriculture
During this period, ancient humans switched from hunter/gatherer mode to agriculture and food production
Neolithic period
What period did humans domesticated animals and cultivated cereal grains.
neolithic Period
Neolithic Period
They used ________ for ploughing and tilling the land and started to settle in the plains
polished hand axes
What period did Advancements were made not only in tools but also in farming, home construction, and art, including pottery, sewing, and weaving?
Neolithic Period
During this Age, advances in metalworking were made, as bronze, a copper and tin alloy, was discovered.
o
Bronze Age
Bronze is made up of _________ and _____.
88% copper, 12% tin
a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted
ores
Organized government, law, and warfare, as well as beginnings of religion, also came into play during the ______.
Bronze Age
The purpose of pyramids made by ancient Egyptians during Bronze Age.
To honor their dead pharaohs
What are the earliest written accounts dated to Bronze Age?
Egyptian hieroglyphs and petroglyphs (rock engravings)
The birth of smelting is discovered by _____?
Sumerians of Mesopotamia
