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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?

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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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