1. Copyright 2002 Bonnie Nizamis
Jeopardy Template
Copyright 2002
Bonnie Nizamis

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3. Period of the human past before writing was invented.

4. What is prehistory?
100

5. Development that separates prehistory from recorded history.

6. What is writing?
200

7. The study of people, their environments, and their resources.

8. What is geography?
300

9. Society having complex institutions, cities, job specialization, written language, etc.

10. What is a civilization?
400

11. Any surviving object made by early people.

12. What is an artifact?
500

13. Period when northern continents were buried under ice and snow.

14. What is the Ice Age?
100

15. Before the birth of Christ

16. What does B.C. stand for?
200

17. First period of human history.

18. What is the Stone Age?
300

19. Period of 1000 years

20. What is a millennium?
400

21. Shift from food hunting and gathering to food producing.

22. What is the Neolithic Revolution?
500

23. Continent where earliest humankike remains found

24. What is Africa?
100

25. Muscular prehistoric people who were not ancestors of modern humans.

26. Who were the Neanderthals?
200

27. Prehistoric people who closely resembled modern humans.

28. Who were the Cro-magnons?
300

29. Characteristic that enabled humans to use their hands freely.

30. What was erect posture?
400

31. Skill that allowed humans to pass along knowledge.

32. What was language?
500

33. Earliest (Paleolithic) ways of getting food.

34. What were hunting and gathering?
100

35. A shaped stone.

36. What was a tool?
200

37. Neanderthal shelters.

38. What were caves?
300

39. Huge woolly creature, often hunted.

40. What was a mammoth?
400

41. Characteristic that allowed humans to store and use more information than animals.

42. What was a large brain?
500

43. Earliest clothing material.

44. What was animal skin?
100

45. Resource used both for cooking and as a weapon.

46. What was fire?
200

47. How Neanderthals disposed of their dead.

48. What was burial?
300

49. Neolithic invention that was the basis for transportation.

50. What was the wheel?
400

51. First domesticated animal.

52. What was the dog?
500