Middle School East 7th grade Social Studies



|[pic] |Paleolithic Age |Neolithic Age |Importance |

| |(Old Stone Age) |(New Stone Age) | |

|Food Supply |Hunted animals |Learned how to domesticate animals such as sheep, goats, cows, |Gave them a stable food supply |

| |Gathered plants |mules |They could settle in one place |

| |NOT a stable food supply |Grew crops | |

|Shelter |Temporary shelters |Mud brick houses w/stone & branches to make stronger |Form larger communities |

| |Caves or tents |Several rooms |Protect from animals and weather |

| | |Food stored under floor |Permanent shelter |

| | |Cooking pit |New ways of cooking |

|Communities |20-60 people |Larger communities |Defend selves easier |

| |Wandered from place to place |Work together |Invented new ways to make life safer and more |

| |Nomads |Different jobs |comfortable |

| | |Do tasks faster | |

|Jobs |Most important job was to find food to survive |Weaving, basket making, tool making, trading |Working at just one job gave them a better |

| | |Improved at jobs because they could focus on doing one thing |chance of finding new ways to do things |

| | | |Different jobs meant more variety |

| | | |Able to make things beautiful |

|Trade |Rarely conducted trade |Traded to get resources they didn’t have |Traveling helped spread knowledge and ideas |

| |Used resources nearby |Traveled many miles to trade (on foot, by donkey, or ship) |Made use of more resources |

archaeologists: an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.

historians: an expert who studies and records the past.

geographers: an expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human-made features.

artifacts: an object made or used by people in the past

|The Stone Age got its name because |people used stone tools. | |

|During the Paleolithic Age, people got food by |moving from place to place. | |

|The Neolithic Age began when people started to |develop farming. | |

|The Neolithic Age ended when people learned how to |make tools out of metal. | |

|What is the Fertile Crescent? |an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia with rich soil | |

|Which of the following describes agriculture? |growing crops and raising animals | |

|Which of the following was an immediate effect of the development of agriculture? |People had some control over their food supply. | |

|Exchanging one item for another is called |trade | |

|The use of permanent shelters was the first great change that resulted from the development of |agriculture (farming) | |

|Developing new jobs was one result of |having a stable food supply. | |

|Which term relates to the practice of people working in a variety of jobs? |specialization | |

|Something that can be used to fulfill a need is called |a resource. | |

|One of the most important advances in all of history was |the invention of agriculture. | |

|Which development occurred after Neolithic people made permanent shelters? |living in communities | |

|In which of the following ways were Paleolithic people different from Neolithic people? |Unlike Neolithic people, Paleolithic people rarely practiced trade. | |

|What is the term that describes an animal that has been trained to be useful to humans? |domesticated | |

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