Name________________________
Name________________________ Mrs. Sheehan
Unit 1 Archeology and Prehistory
Unit Essential Question: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 1 Section 4: Legends (p. 24)
Lesson Essential Question – __________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A. Define archeologist: _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
B. Define anthropologist: _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 1 Section 5: Archeology (p. 25-28, 30)
C. Define archeology: _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
D. When did the study of archeology begin? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________
E. Define artifacts: ____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F. What did scientists find they could learn from artifacts? _____________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Archeological Finds (p. 26-27)
G. What did archeologists learn from Herculaneum and Pompeii? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
H. What great archeological discovery was made in Egypt? Why was it important to the study of history? _______________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dating Archeological Remains (p 27-30)
I. What does excavate mean? ____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________
J. What do archeologists do after they discover remains? _____________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
K. What were the three time periods, or ages that Christian J. Thomsen created?
1. __________________________________________
2. __________________________________________
3. __________________________________________
L. What were the ages based on? _________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
M. What were the two time periods based on how people obtained their food?
1. __________________________________________
2. __________________________________________
N. How does Carbon 14 dating work?
1. All things contain a ___________________ ___________________ called ___________________ ________.
2. After plants, animals, and people ___________________, the carbon 14 slowly ___________________.
3. By ___________________ how much carbon 14 an object ________, scientist can figure how ___________________ the object is.
Chapter 2: Prehistoric Peoples (p. 33-46)
Chapter Focus
Why It’s Important (p. 33)
O. What is prehistory? When did prehistory end? ____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
P. What does the word civilization mean? __________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Section 2: The Neolithic Age (p. 41-46)
Lesson Essential Question – __________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Q. Define the following terms:
1. Economics: ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
2. Population: __________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
3. Domestication: ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
4. Revolution: ___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
5. Neolithic Revolution: __________________________________ ______________________________________________________
R. How did people change in the Neolithic Age? _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Farmers and Herders (p. 41-42)
S. What were two important discoveries brought on the Neolithic Revolution?
1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
T. What did early people begin using animals such as donkeys, camels, and llamas for? ________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
U. What were the results of the Neolithic Revolution?
1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lesson Essential Question: __________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Specialization (p. 45)
V. Define specialization: _______________________________________
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W. Why did specialization develop? _______________________________
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X. What were some examples of specialization?
1. __________________________________________
2. __________________________________________
3. __________________________________________
Y. What were some of other developments that helped specialization?
1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lesson Essential Question: __________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Early Villages (p. 42-43)
Z. What was another result of people beginning to produce food?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AA. What were some of the earliest known villages?
1. __________________________________________
2. __________________________________________
3. __________________________________________
BB. What have archeologists discovered about Catal Hüyük?
1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Government (p. 45)
CC. How was government different during Neolithic times?
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DD. How did Neolithic villages keep order? ________________________
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Religion (p. 45-46)
EE. What do experts believe that most chiefs did? ____________________
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FF. What did priests do? _______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GG. How did religion change over time?
1. At first, _______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. After a time, ___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. The most important goddess was __________________________, the goddess of fertility.
4. Archaeologists believe ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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