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Early Man/Farming
Mazepa Social Studies test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What questions do historians ask? | What happened? Who took part in events? When did it happen? How and why did it happen? |
| What is a primary source? | records made by people who saw or took part in an event |
| What is a secondary sources? | no direct link to an event written by someone who was not there at the time. |
| What is geography? | Study the Earth's surface and the way people use it |
| What are the five themes of geography? | Location (absolute and relative location) Place Human-Environmental Interactions Movement Regions |
| What do archeologist study? | They locate and study artifacts left behind by people |
| What is an artifact? | An artifact is anything made or modified by man |
| What does a paleoanthropologist study? | They study the ancestors of modern people and carefully look at fossils or remains of once living things |
| Don Johanson discovered what ? | 3.2 million year old hominid named Lucy. |
| What did Lucy prove? | This fossil record proved that hominids walked upright long before they developed stone tools |
| Louis and Mary Leaky discovered what? | 2.5 million year old fossil of Homo Habilis, Handy Man, which marks the time when tool making began. |
| Homo Erectus is believed to be first hominid to do what? | Tame fire |
| Homo Sapiens nickname is what? | wise humans |
| Homo Sapians origins began about 200,000 years ago where? | North Eastern Africa |
| How did the development of taming of fire effect Homo Erectus? | taming fire- protection, warmth, cooking, light, better tasting food that lasted longer |
| How did the development of tools effect Homo Erectus? | Tools- hunting and gathering led to band and migrating |
| Methods used by archaeologists to date artifacts and fossils | Trees, layering of dirt, Carbon 14 dating, Thermoluminesence, DNA |
| Trees date up to how many years? | 2,000 years |
| Layering-how can you tell how old something is? | How deep in the ground the item is |
| Carbon 14 dating | 50,000 years -once living things ONLY |
| Thermoluminesence | measures light given off particles trapped in the soil surrounding the object up to 200,000 years. |
| DNA | once living things only-like a crime scene |
| Homo Sapians migrated from where? | from Africa in small bands between 12,000-100,000 years ago to follow food sources needed. These people were hunter and gatherers |
| What is migration? | Movement that happened during the Ice Age |
| How did they migrate? | They believe migration across land bridges formed over current waterways made migration to North America, South America and Australia possible |
| What are glaciers? | huge sheets of ice that covered significant parts of the Earth's surface during the ice age |
| What is culture? | a way of life made up of beliefs, customs, language and arts |
| What is society? | an organized group of people living and working under a set of rules and traditions. |
| What marked the end of the Paleolithic age and the beginning of the Mesolithic age? | the change from hunting and gathering food to nomadic herding of animals marked this time |
| What are nomads? | people who began with no settled, long-term home, who follow their sources of food |
| What age did people begin domesticating animals around 10,000 years ago? | Mesolithic age |
| What marked the end of the Mesolithic age and began the Neolithic age? | the change from gathering wild plants to domesticating crops (agriculture) |
| What is considered the most important revolutionary change for mankind? | Domesticating plants and animals (farming) |
| What are the PROS of agriculture (farming)? | Fewer people starved to death, longer lifespan, more organized society-increased numbers, settle in one place-didn't migrate, more people could be fed-steady food source, surplus of food, lived closer to one another, permanent homes, trade, created jobs |
| What are the CONS of agriculture (farming)? | Disease spread, worked harder and longer, rapid change of diet, fighting over land, greed, timing-bad farming years |
| What areas were domesticated first? | fertile areas with access to a dependable water supply |
| What is an Australopithecine? | latin term meaning southern ape |
| What is a tundra? | large treeless plain in the arctic region |
| How long ago did early people develop agriculture? | 8,000 years ago |
| Cave painting as old as 30,000 years was limited to Europe- T/F | False |
| Australophitecine characteristics | plant eaters, scavengers did not hunt, small body (4-5 feet) limited use of tools-no fire |
| Homo Habilis characteristics | means "handy person", stone tools found near Turkana Boy, taller, bigger brain, did not use fire |
| Homo Erectus characteristics | used fire, used fire for the first time for cooking, warmth and protection, bigger brains than earlier hominids, no language |
| Homo Sapien characteristics | wise humans, origin from East Africa, largest brain, many tools, communicated through language |
| What is a band? | People traveled in groups |
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