Unit 2: The First People
Across
- 6. Actual things that people in the past used or made
- 10. Men and women are equals
- 12. Marked a new era with more refined stone tools, 10,000 BCE- 5,000 BCE
- 14. Name means “upright man,"Appeared in Africa about 2-1.5 million years ago, Used early stone tools such as the ax, Learned to control fire, Migrated out of Africa
- 15. People who moved from one place to another as they followed migrating animals
- 17. Religious structures made of big stones and used for spiritual purposes
- 18. The study of human history through the analysis of artifacts
- 21. Division of people in hierarchy
- 23. Selective growing and selective breeding
- 25. Name means “handy man”, appeared in Africa about 2.4 million years ago, used crude stone tools for chopping and scraping, brain was about half the size of modern humans
- 26. The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs and technology from one country to another
- 27. Australopithecine skeleton discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson
- 28. After Neolithic Revolution, new jobs emerge
Down
- 1. Beginning of agriculture, 10,000 years ago, people start settling and forming civilizations
- 2. His remains were found in 1991 and he is over 5000 years old. They found his bones and tissues and his outfit is made of 3 different animal skins
- 3. People who hunted, fished and gathered wild plants, berries, nuts
- 4. The pattern of early humans moving to new environments
- 5. Name means “wise man," appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago, migrated around the world, same species as modern humans, used a wide range of tools, learned to create fire, developed language
- 7. Stood upright and walked on two legs, appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago, brain was about one third of modern humans
- 8. Otherwise known as the old stone age, lasted from 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago and is when the first humans lived. People made tools from stone
- 9. Civilization in Turkey, One of the oldest farming sites, 8000 years ago, A few thousand people, men were hunters and women were farmers
- 11. Human like creatures that walked upright and appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago
- 13. The time before written records
- 16. The study of human societies and cultures and their development
- 19. Found skull fragments that were 1.75 million years old, found footprints that were 3.5 million years old, discovered them in East Africa in 1959
- 20. A strait that connected Asia and North America and was used for early humans to cross into North America
- 22. A craftsman, someone who makes things by hand
- 24. Cave that includes 600 images of animals and symbols, created between 17,000 and 15,000 years ago