Jeopardy Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Understand-ing our Past People/ Other Neolithic Revolution Early Civilizations Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question – Understanding Our Past The study of the origins and development of people and their societies.

$100 Answer – Understanding Our Past anthropology

$200 Question – Understanding Our Past First hominid to make stone tools, also known as “handy-man”

$200 Answer – Understanding Our Past Homo habilis

$300 Question – Understanding Our Past This group of hominids disappeared 50,000 years ago

$300 Answer – Understanding Our Past NEANDERTHALS

$400 Question – Understanding Our Past What is the main feature that defines civilization?

$400 Answer – Understanding Our Past cities

$500 Question– Understanding Our Past Name the early hominid groups in the order they emerged on this earth…

$500 Answer – Understanding Our Past Australopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens

$100 Question – Neolithic Revolution The belief that spirits and forces exist in animals, objects and dreams.

$100 Answer– Neolithic Revolution animism

$200 Question– Neolithic Revolution Name one of the first Neolithic villages…

$200 Answer– Neolithic Revolution Jericho, Catalhuyuk

$300 Question – Neolithic Revolution Scholars believe people created cave paintings for what reason?

$300 Answer – Neolithic Revolution Religious rituals

$400 Question – Neolithic Revolution What was the turning point of prehistory? WHY?

$400 Answer– Neolithic Revolution Agriculture - permanent settlements - job specialization - led to new ways of life (end nomadic) - new innovations

$500 Question– Neolithic Revolution Call period from 2 million B.C. to 10,000 B.C. the OLD STONE AGE or the ________________. Call period from 10,000 B.C. to end of prehistory the NEW STONE AGE or the ________________.

$500 Answer– Neolithic Revolution 1. Paleolithic 2. Neolithic

$100 Question – Early Civilizations This was an early step in the development of writing.

$100 Answer – Early Civilizations pictographs

$200 Question– Early Civilizations Describes people who believe in many gods…

$200 Answer– Early Civilizations polytheistic

$300 Question – Early Civilizations Top social class in ancient societies was usually occupied by

$300 Answer – Early Civilizations Priests and nobles

$400 Question– Early Civilizations First civilizations in Asia and Africa arose where? WHY?

$400 Answer– Early Civilizations Major rivers: - regular water supply - silt - surplus of food - transportation etc…

$500 Question– Early Civilizations What ability did early humans learn to develop long before the others?

$500 Answer– Early Civilizations Ability to travel across water

$100 Question- People/Other In the 1950s Mary/Louis Leakey were searching in the _________ _________ for evidence of early life.

$100 Answer – People/Other Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (Africa)

$200 Question – People/Other What was Mary Leakey’s FIRST discovery?

$200 Answer – People/Other Stone tool with jagged edge

$300 Question – People/Other Historians know how people in the Neolithic era lived because of this recent discovery? Where was this found?

$300 Answer – People/Other Otzi, or the ICE MAN in the Swiss Alps

$400 Question – People/Other Which anthropologist uncovered sets of footprints…

$400 Answer – People/Other Mary Leakey

$500 Question- People/Other Name 5 basic features of civilization…

$500 Answer- People/Other Cities, organized governments, religious beliefs, job specialization, public works, writing, social classes, arts/architecture

Final Jeopardy Name the first 4 River Valley Civilizations to emerge…as well as their locations!!!!!

Final Jeopardy Answer Ancient Sumer – Tigris/Euphrates -ME Ancient Egypt – along Nile River Indus Valley – Indus River in India Shang – along Huange He River in China