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DATE CLASS
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Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution
A. Content Vocabulary
Directions: Select a vocabulary term from the box that best
completes each sentence. Write a term in each blank.
Paleolithic domesticate specialization
nomad Neolithic Age Bronze Age
technology systematic monarchy
ice age agriculture
shrine
1. A person who moves from place to place is called a
_______.
2. The government of a country led by a king would be a
_______ .
3. Dogs were one of the first animals that humans learned to
_______________ .
4. During the________________, complex civilizations grew
up in river valleys.
5. People adapted during the ______________ by changing
their diet, building sturdier shelters, and using animal
skins to make warm clothing.
6. Images of gods and goddess are often found decorating a
_______ .
7. Improved tools are one example of the __________________
of early people.
8. As people moved to villages and cities, the ________________ of work developed
.
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9. An important development for ________________ people was
learning how to use flint tools.
10. During the Neolithic Age, people slowly switched from
hunting and gathering to ________________ to feed
themselves
11. The time from about 8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C. is called the
.
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Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution
B. Academic Vocabulary
Directions: Complete the chart by writing an entry in each box
except those marked /////.
Word Definition Use the Synonym Antonym
word in a
sentence.
economy ////////// //////////
constant
Locate //////////
Method //////////
Available
Construct
communicate //////////
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C. Combined Vocabulary Reinforcement
Directions: Use the vocabulary words in the box to complete
the summary of Chapter 3. You will not be able to use all the words.
You may have to change the form of some of the words.
economic locate nomads systematic
constant monarchy domesticate construct
Paleolithic ice age available communicate
Bronze Neolithic Age technology specialization
Age method shrine agriculture
Historians call the earliest period of human history the
______________ age. There were no farms or villages during
this time. People were ______________ who moved from
place to place to survive.
Life was difficult for early people, but they adapted. They
used the resources that were to _____________ them. They
developed _______________ such as flint axes and other
tools. Other achievements of Paleolithic people include the
ability to make fire and spoken language. Before the
development of spoken language, people ________________
using sounds and gestures. Once spoken language developed,
it grew and developed.
Around 100,000 B.C. the climate on Earth began to change. There
were long periods of extreme cold. The most recent
began. During this time, the water level of the
oceans was lowered. A land bridge between Asia and
North America was revealed. This land bridge allowed people
to move into the Americas for the first time.
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Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution
At the end of the last Ice Age, Earth’s temperature rose.
People began to stay in one place to grow food. Farming
replaced hunting and gathering. At the same time, people
began to _, or tame, animals. This
change in the way people lived marked the beginning of the
_________________
During this time, people began to settle in villages. Their
villages were _______________ near their fields. One of the
world’s oldest communities was Jericho, in Southwest Asia. In
Jericho, people ________________ houses of sun-dried brick.
During the late Neolithic Age, people in western Asia
discovered that mixing copper and tin formed a new,
stronger metal. This new metal gives us the name of a new
age. The
lasted from 3000 to 1200 B.C.
