1. The Stone Age The Stone Age lasted almost 2 million years!
Question #1 & #2
The Stone Age
The Stone Age lasted almost 2 million years!
The Stone Age is divided into 3 different time periods:
Paleolithic (Paleo = Early)
Mesolithic (Meso = Middle)
Neolithic (Neo = New)

2. The Stone Age Paleolithic Age (2 million BCE to 12,000 BCE)
Question #3 & #4
Paleolithic Age (2 million BCE to 12,000 BCE)
The climate went through an Ice Age and began to warm up at the end
Hunter-gatherers that moved from place to place
They moved to follow their food sources and find places that weren’t too cold

3. The Stone Age Paleolithic Age (2 million BCE to 12,000 BCE)
Question #5
The Stone Age
Paleolithic Age (2 million BCE to 12,000 BCE)
Little technology during this time. All tools were made out of stone (mostly flint)

4. The Stone Age Mesolithic Age (12,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE)
Question #6 & #7
The Stone Age
Mesolithic Age (12,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE)
Climate continued to get warmer
The microlith was invented- A small triangular shaped blade of stone used in knives and spears
Other inventions: boats from hollowed logs, fishing nets and hooks

5. The Stone Age Neolithic Revolution (10,000 BCE to 2,000 BCE)
Question #8, #9, & #10
The Stone Age
Neolithic Revolution (10,000 BCE to 2,000 BCE)
Agriculture: People learned how to plant and harvest crops
People began to live in cities and towns
The first governments were formed

6. The Neolithic Revolution
Question #11
People began to settle in the “Fertile Crescent” between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
This is where the world’s first farmers began
Today, these countries are Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Turkey

7. The Neolithic Revolution
Question #12
The Neolithic Revolution
Most historians believe that women were the first farmers
They believe that the women noticed patterns in the growth of wild plants and learned how to cultivate plants
Cultivate- Using land for growing crops

8. The Neolithic Revolution
Question #13
Domestication- Growing plants to eat or using animals for work and food
Humans began to domesticate dogs to help with hunting about 12,000 BCE
Farm animals were domesticated around 8,000 BCE (goats, sheep, cows, pigs)
The animals were used as a food source (meat and milk) and to do work in the fields (plowing)

9. The Neolithic Revolution
Question #14 & #15
The Neolithic Revolution
Because fewer people were needed in the fields for farming and hunting, they could specialize in other trades:
Making tools and weapons
Building houses
Making clothes
Merchants
Specialization led to innovation, and innovation led to improvement in people's lives

10. Question #16
Bronze Age
4,500 BCE – 500 BCE
Humans began to use bronze tools for hunting and farming
The bronze tools were stronger and sharper than the stone tools
The first written language was created during this time

11. Iron Age Lasted from 1000 BCE to 1 CE
Question #17
Iron Age
Lasted from 1000 BCE to 1 CE
At the end of the Bronze age, humans started to use iron and steel because it was stronger
The iron plow was a very important advancement in technology.

12. How did the Neolithic Revolution change the way we live?

13. How did the Neolithic Revolution change the way we live?
Discovered farming
Allowed us to settle down and not be nomads anymore
This led to the first cities and towns
Governments were needed
This led to job specialization
New technology
This first happened in “the Fertile Crescent”

14. Group 1
What is a hominin?

15. Group 2
Why were humans able to cross the Bering Land Bridge and move from Asia to North America?

16. Group 3
What is migration?

17. Group 4
How did the Ice Age affect migration?

18. Group 5
What event happened that allowed people to travel further north and migrate into Europe?