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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
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$100 Question – Understanding Our Past
The study of the origins and development of people and their societies.
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$100 Answer – Understanding Our Past
anthropology
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$200 Question – Understanding Our Past
First hominid to make stone tools, also known as “handy-man”
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$200 Answer – Understanding Our Past
Homo habilis
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$300 Question – Understanding Our Past
This group of hominids disappeared 50,000 years ago
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$300 Answer – Understanding Our Past
NEANDERTHALS
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$400 Question – Understanding Our Past
What is the main feature that defines civilization?
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$400 Answer – Understanding Our Past
cities
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$500 Question– Understanding Our Past
Name the early hominid groups in the order they emerged on this earth…
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$500 Answer – Understanding Our Past
Australopithecus Homo habilis Homo erectus Homo sapiens
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$100 Question – Neolithic Revolution
The belief that spirits and forces exist in animals, objects and dreams.
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$100 Answer– Neolithic Revolution
animism
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$200 Question– Neolithic Revolution
Name one of the first Neolithic villages…
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$200 Answer– Neolithic Revolution
Jericho, Catalhuyuk
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$300 Question – Neolithic Revolution
Scholars believe people created cave paintings for what reason?
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$300 Answer – Neolithic Revolution
Religious rituals
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$400 Question – Neolithic Revolution
What was the turning point of prehistory? WHY?
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$400 Answer– Neolithic Revolution
Agriculture permanent settlements - job specialization led to new ways of life (end nomadic) new innovations
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$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 ________________.
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$500 Answer– Neolithic Revolution
1. Paleolithic 2. Neolithic
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$100 Question – Early Civilizations
This was an early step in the development of writing.
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$100 Answer – Early Civilizations
pictographs
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$200 Question– Early Civilizations
Describes people who believe in many gods…
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$200 Answer– Early Civilizations
polytheistic
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$300 Question – Early Civilizations
Top social class in ancient societies was usually occupied by
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$300 Answer – Early Civilizations
Priests and nobles
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$400 Question– Early Civilizations
First civilizations in Asia and Africa arose where? WHY?
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$400 Answer– Early Civilizations
Major rivers: regular water supply silt surplus of food transportation etc…
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$500 Question– Early Civilizations
What ability did early humans learn to develop long before the others?
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$500 Answer– Early Civilizations
Ability to travel across water
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$100 Question- People/Other
In the 1950s Mary/Louis Leakey were searching in the _________ _________ for evidence of early life.
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$100 Answer – People/Other
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (Africa)
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$200 Question – People/Other
What was Mary Leakey’s FIRST discovery?
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$200 Answer – People/Other
Stone tool with jagged edge
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$300 Question – People/Other
Historians know how people in the Neolithic era lived because of this recent discovery? Where was this found?
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$300 Answer – People/Other
Otzi, or the ICE MAN in the Swiss Alps
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$400 Question – People/Other
Which anthropologist uncovered sets of footprints…
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$400 Answer – People/Other
Mary Leakey
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$500 Question- People/Other
Name 5 basic features of civilization…
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$500 Answer- People/Other
Cities, organized governments, religious beliefs, job specialization, public works, writing, social classes, arts/architecture
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Final Jeopardy Name the first 4 River Valley Civilizations to emerge…as well as their locations!!!!!
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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
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