Chapter 3 Review (Early Humans)

4. The earliest period of the Stone Age
6. People taking part in jobs or activities that best-utilized their skills and abilities
8. Overall weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
10. A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land
14. Early humans who appeared before the Paleolithic Age
16. A complex, highly organized social order
17. Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings
18. the organization of people within a society into groups according to the work they do or how much power they have
19. Holy places decorated with images of Gods and Goddesses

1. four groups (Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China) that emerged around 3000BC
2. A period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with massive ice sheets.
3. to tame; to bring plants or animals under human control
5. A member of a group that has no permanent home and wanders from place to place in search of food and water
7. the period after the Paleolithic Age marked by a shift from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture
9. Times between 3000BC and 1200BC in which craftspeople learned to mix copper and tin to make strong tools
11. a strip of land that connects two larger landmasses, enabling migration of plants, animals, and people
12. any change that has an enormous effect on peoples' way of life
13. the science or practice of farming, including the growing of crops and the rearing of animals
15. a government ruled by a king or queen
16. Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.