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Early Man/Farming
Mazepa's S.S test review
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| What questions do historians ask? | What happened? Who took part in the event? 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 it |
| What is a secondary source? | no direct link to an event written by someone who was not there at the time |
| What is geography? | The study of the earth's surface and the way people use it |
| What are the 5 topics geographers when they study a place? | Location Place Human-Environment Interactions Movement Regions |
| What do archaeologist study? | They locate and study artifacts left behind by people |
| What do paleoanthropologists study? | They study ancestors of modern people and carefully look at fossils or remains of once living things. |
| What did Don Johanson discover? | 3.2 million year old hominid named Lucy |
| What did Lucy prove? | She proved that hominids walked on 2 legs before making stone tools |
| What did Louis and Mary Leaky discover? | 2.5 million year old hominid of a Homo Habilis known as the Handy Man |
| What did Homo Habilis mark ? | The start of stone tool making |
| When and where did Homo Sapiens orginated? | 200,000 years ago and started in North Eastern Africa |
| What are Homo Sapiens nicknamed? | Wise Humans |
| What was Homo Erectus believed to be the first to do what? | Tame Fire |
| How did fire help Homo Erectus? | protection, light, warmth, cooking, better tasting food that lasted longer |
| How did tools help Homo Erectus? | hunting and gathering led to bands and migrating |
| What methods are used by archaeologist to date fossils and artifacts? | Trees Layering Carbon 14 Thermoluminescene |
| How many years do trees last up to dating? | 2000 years |
| How does soil layering tell you the date? | how deep it is in the ground |
| How many years does Carbon 14 last up to dating? | 50,000 years |
| How many years does Thermoluminesence last up to dating? | 200,000 years |
| How does DNA tell you the date? | once living things only-like a crime scene |
| When and why did Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa? | 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, mostly to follow food |
| When and how did migration happen? | It happened during the Ice age, when geographers believed that land bridges formed over current water ways made to North America, South America, and maybe Austrailia. |
| How long did the Ice age last? | between 100,000 and 10,000 years ago |
| What covered the Earth during the Ice age? | Glaciers |
| What does CULTURE mean? | a way of life made up by beliefs, customs, language, and arts |
| What does SOCIETY mean? | an organized group of people living and working under a set of rules and traditions |
| How did the Paleolithic Age end and how the Mesolithic Age begin? | The start of nomadic herding of animals instead of hunting or gathering |
| What does NOMADS mean? | people who have no settled long term homes, who follow sources of food |
| What was the Mesolithic Age about? | They began domesticating animals. |
| What marked the end of Mesolithic Age and the beginning of the Neolithic Age? | Instead of gathering wild plants, they domesticating plants (farming) |
| What was the most revolutionary change for mankind? | Domestication of plants and aminals |
| Pros of farming | fewer people starved to death longer lifespan more organized society-increased numbers lived closer to each other Build permanent homes trade created jobs inverntions |
| Cons of farming | Disease could spread Work harder and longer Rapid change of diet GREED!!!!! THEME!!!!! Timing-bad farming years/good farming years |
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