Ch. 1 Sect. 2 & 3
Match each of these and how
they relate (once matched they are eliminated)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
Paleolithic Period
10,000 BC until end of prehistory
2 million BC to 10,000 BC
Neolithic Period
Explain what nomads were
 People who move from place to place finding food
 20 to 30 people
 Men hunted or fished
 Women and children gathered
Name some Stone Age
achievements
 Built tools and weapons out of stone, bone, or wood
 Fire
 Animal skins for clothing
 Spoken language
 Travel across water
 Q. What do burial customs suggest about
the beliefs of early peoples?
 A. Believed in an afterlife that was
similar to life in this world. Buried
with certain tools or weapons to help
in journey.
 Q. What were the key features of the Neolithic
agricultural revolution?
 A. Learned how to plant food crops. Domesticated
and kept animals so no longer dependant on
hunting
Domesticate
 Raise in controlled ways, animals or plants
 Dog first
What were first cities?
 Catalhuyuk (chah tahl hyoo yook) 7000 BC with 6500 people
and Jericho 10,000 BC few thousand
New Technologies in Villages?
 When to plant created first calendars
 Oxen and water buffalo to plow fields
 Separate workshops where ax heads and arrowheads
built
 Woven cloth
 Pottery
 Q. Which beginning city location has the best
chance at survival? In a desert, in a forest, on a
hill, by a river, or on the side of a mountain. Why?
 A. By a river. Floods deposited silt that made river
valleys fertile for farming. Constant water
supplies and easy transportation.
 Q. How were government and religion closely
linked in early civilizations?
 A. priests often had the most power. Later, rulers
claimed that their power came from the gods and
handed it down to their sons.
 Q. What are some things that may cause you to
change part of your culture?
 A. Environmental change, cultural diffusion
through migration, trade, or warfare
 Q. How did job specialization lead to the
emergence of social classes in early civilizations?
 A. People tended to live and work with those who
had the same jobs as themselves, thus forming
the first social classes. Social rank depended on
the power and wealth connected to one’s job.
Priests and nobles usually enjoyed the highest
status.
Journal Question!!!
 Thousands of years ago cultural changes took
hundreds of years to actually occur. Why do you
think that this change can happen much more
quickly in today’s world??