Beginning of Human Society

To adapt wild plants or tame wild animals and breed them for human use.

How did early civilizations affect the surrounding environment?

BONUS: What type of tools did people use in the New Stone Age?

A society with cities, a central government, jobs, and social classes.

A person who has no settled home.

Time before writing was invented.

"Pre" in prehistory means

What abilities do Neanderthals and Homo spaiens share?

Supplying land with water through a network of canals

During the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age) people got food mostly by:

The economy of EARLY villages was based mainly on

A group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes and ways of living.

If early humans had a dependable source of water it enabled them to...

A period of time during with hominids made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone

Worker who is especially skilled at crafting items by hand.

Where did the first civilizations appear

The study of Earth's surface and the process that shapes it.

During the Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age) people got food by

A modern human or member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans

How did people in the Old Stone Age get food?

More than is needed

During the period of the Old Stone Age, people learned to

In ancient times, who spread new ideas and tools from one geographic setting to another?

When archeologists study an excavation site, objects closer to the surface are

A scientist who examines objects to learn about human's past

Written and other recorded events of people.