Unit 2 Review

2. land bridge
3. the switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution
5. the study of humans
6. the period of time before written records
7. a study of material evidence of past human life
10. he lived in the New (Neolithic) Stone Age approximately 5,300 years ago
11. New Stone Age
13. a huge stone monument
14. the spreads of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another
18. Old Stone Age
19. one of the first true cities in history. Created in the neolithic era of 6500 to 5500
20. first to make stone tools
21. a cave discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine paleolithic wall paintings and engravings
23. and other creatures that walk upright
25. an archaeologist who found bones in East Asia that were more than 1.5 million years old and believed that the bones belonged to a hominid.
27. people who hunt animals and gather wild plants , seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
28. a ranking of people into higher or lower positions of respect in society

1. societies in which people have about the same rank and share equally in the basic resources that support income, status, and power
4. modern humans
8. the taming of animals for human use, such as work or as food
9. upright man
12. Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers
15. moving from place to place
16. the first human who left remains of her bones; she lived around 3.5 million years ago
17. the earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 3 to 4 million years ago
22. the physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups
24. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand
26. objects made by human beings, either handmade or mass produced