Review Questions and Terms:
Terms to Know: Neolithic Era, Paleolithic Era, Stone Age, animism, glacier, domesticate, nomads, "Lucy".
A. How did Paleolithic people learn to adapt to their environment?
B. What do burial customs suggest about the beliefs of early peoples?
C. What were the key features of the Neolithic agricultural revolution? How did it change people's lives?
Critical Questions
A. Why would economic scarcity often lead to increased warfare between farming communities?
B. How do you think economic scarcity and warfare changed the status of women in Stone Age societies?
C. Why would geography probably have played a more important role in hte lives of people during the Old Stone Age than it plays in your life today?
Source: World History - A Connection to Today, Prentice Hall, 2003.
A. How did Paleolithic people learn to adapt to their environment?
B. What do burial customs suggest about the beliefs of early peoples?
C. What were the key features of the Neolithic agricultural revolution? How did it change people's lives?
Critical Questions
A. Why would economic scarcity often lead to increased warfare between farming communities?
B. How do you think economic scarcity and warfare changed the status of women in Stone Age societies?
C. Why would geography probably have played a more important role in hte lives of people during the Old Stone Age than it plays in your life today?
Source: World History - A Connection to Today, Prentice Hall, 2003.