Unit 2: The First People

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Across
  1. 6. Actual things that people in the past used or made
  2. 10. Men and women are equals
  3. 12. Marked a new era with more refined stone tools, 10,000 BCE- 5,000 BCE
  4. 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
  5. 15. People who moved from one place to another as they followed migrating animals
  6. 17. Religious structures made of big stones and used for spiritual purposes
  7. 18. The study of human history through the analysis of artifacts
  8. 21. Division of people in hierarchy
  9. 23. Selective growing and selective breeding
  10. 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
  11. 26. The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs and technology from one country to another
  12. 27. Australopithecine skeleton discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson
  13. 28. After Neolithic Revolution, new jobs emerge
Down
  1. 1. Beginning of agriculture, 10,000 years ago, people start settling and forming civilizations
  2. 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. 3. People who hunted, fished and gathered wild plants, berries, nuts
  4. 4. The pattern of early humans moving to new environments
  5. 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
  6. 7. Stood upright and walked on two legs, appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago, brain was about one third of modern humans
  7. 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
  8. 9. Civilization in Turkey, One of the oldest farming sites, 8000 years ago, A few thousand people, men were hunters and women were farmers
  9. 11. Human like creatures that walked upright and appeared in Africa 4-5 million years ago
  10. 13. The time before written records
  11. 16. The study of human societies and cultures and their development
  12. 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
  13. 20. A strait that connected Asia and North America and was used for early humans to cross into North America
  14. 22. A craftsman, someone who makes things by hand
  15. 24. Cave that includes 600 images of animals and symbols, created between 17,000 and 15,000 years ago