Study Guide: Chapter 1; the First Humans

Mrs. Svetik World History 8

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Study Guide: Chapter 1; The First Humans

You should be able to answer the following questions:

What can be determined about history based on the artifacts left behind?

Explain how life changed as a result of the Neolithic Revolution.

How did fire, agriculture and tools change the lives of humans?

Practice answering these questions with the notes taken in class, any visuals (i.e. slides, editorial cartoons, etc.), the homework assignments, and from your understanding the assigned chapter in your textbook. Below is a list of terms, people, events, and ideas that should be used to help answer the questions above.

Paleolithic Age Fire Neolithic Revolution Shelters Artifacts Systematic Agriculture Anthropology Domestication Archeology Culture Fossil Civilization Radiocarbon dating 6 Characteristics of Civilization Prehistory Monarch Purpose of fire Mary and Louis Leakey Hominid Artisans Mesoamericans Gender Roles Australopithecus Out of Africa Theory Homo Erectus Louis and Mary Leakey Homo Sapien Bronze Age Homo Sapiens Sapien Iron Age Type of tools early humans use Olduvai Gorge Type of tools used during Neolithic period