World History
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
1. ___________
Hominids include earlier humans as well as earlier humanlike
creatures.
2. Objects like tools, clothing, works of art, weapons, and toys
Artifacts
discovered in ancient settlements are known as ________.
Culture is a set of beliefs, knowledge, and patterns of living
3. ________
that a group of people develop.
4. At some point, probably between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago,
Homo _______
Sapiens appeared.
a new human species, known as ______
5. In caves located in Europe and
Southwest Asia, anthropologists
have found remains of early homo
Neanderthals
sapiens called________________
World History
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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nomads
Earlier people had been, __________
wandering from place to place
in search of food.
Earlier people began to develop____________
agriculture
or the raising of food.
domestication
They practiced__________________
or the taming of animals such as
cattle, goats, sheep and pigs.
In prehistoric times people were _______
hunters - ________.
gatherers
civilization
A _____________
is a complex culture that has at least three
characteristics.
Farmers developed the first systems of __________
irrigation made up of
ditches and canals to move water from rivers to their fields.
People began to specialize in other kinds of work, besides farming,
this became known as ________
division ___
of ______.
labor
artisans developed.
Soon a class of skilled workers, called _______
The spread of ideas and other aspects of culture from one area to
another is called ________
cultural _________.
diffusion
World History
Chapter 1 section 1
Prehistoric People
Prehistoric Periods
I. Ice Age
extremely cold weather
A. Periods of _____________________.
20,000 to 140,000 years
1. Each cold period lasted_____________________.
ice
2. A large part of Earth was covered with _____.
B. Falling sea levels helped create______________________.
land bridges (Bering Strait)
migrated
1. Humans and animals__________over
land bridges.
World History
Chapter 1 section 1
II Old Stone Age
A. Neanderthals wore ______________
animal skins
for clothing.
warmth and cooking
B. They used fire for __________________.
tools and weapons for hunting.
C. Cro-Magnons made better_________________
III. Middle Stone Age Mesolithic Age
bows,arrows,hooks,spears
A. Humans used bones and antlers to make___________________
IV. New Stone Age Neolithic Age
A. Improved technology
polishing and grinding
1. Peopled sharpened tools by______________________.
2. They made tools from ___________________________.
stone and wood
tamed
B. They domesticated, or ____________animals.
C. They developed _______________
to raise food.
agriculture
World History
Chapter 1 section 1
Post-Reading Quick Check
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution____________________________
Shift from food gathering to food
producing allowing people to stay in one place, creating
__________________________________________________
communities, and cities
______________________.
World History
Chapter 1 section 2
Post-Reading Quick Check
Characteristics of a Civilization
Produce a surplus of food
1.___________________________________________________
Large towns or cities with some form of government
2.___________________________________________________
People perform different jobs- division of labor
3.___________________________________________________
4.___________________________________________________
Form of writing