Fill In Sentences:
World’s Early People
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in each blank box with the word from the above list that best completes the sentence.
makeshift
shepherded
Nomads
Archaeology
culture
civilization
scavengers
bronze
shelter
irrigate
innovation
hominins
adaptable
agricultural
sophisticated
1. One of Homo sapiens was clothing.
2. are people who travel from place to place without a fixed home.
3. The people of Jericho had a sophisticated .
4. Sheep and goats could be by humans with the help of dogs.
5. The revolution likely began in the Middle East.
6. Early people were able to their plants by building ditches.
7. The agricultural revolution resulted in more boats.
8. People were able to make by adding tin to copper.
9. Before they were hunter-gatherers, Homo sapiens were considered .
10. The brain of Homo sapiens was more than similar species.
11. The are known for first making tools from stone.
12. The progress of Homo sapiens led to the development of as we know it.
13. is the study of ancient things.
14. An early human in Europe might live in a built from wood.
15. Hunter-gatherers often found homes.
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Definition Matching:
World’s Early People
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each vocabulary word in the left column, locate its definition in the right column.
Type the number of the correct definition in the blank before the word.
agricultural
1. a new idea, method, or technology
shelter
2. people who have no permanent residence but move from place to place, often seasonally
scavengers
3. the customs, knowledge, and beliefs of a group of people
irrigate
4. herded or guided
nomads
5. having to do with farming, including soil cultivation, growing crops, and keeping livestock
archaeology
6. to bring water to dry land for crop growth through artificial means
bronze
7. involved, developed, complicated, or complex
makeshift
8. an alloy of copper with very little tin and sometimes other elements such as zinc or lead
sophisticated
9. organisms that feed on waste rather than hunting live prey
culture
10. able to adjust or change to promote survival under different conditions
adaptable
11. members of a broad group of humanlike species that walk upright
shepherded
12. an advanced state of human social development
hominins
13. the study of human history through the analysis of physical remains and artifacts
civilization
14. a structure for temporary protection from the elements
innovation
15. the quality of being a crude or temporary substitute
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Crossword:
World’s Early People
Words
SCAVENGERS
MAKESHIFT
HOMININS
SOPHISTICATED
BRONZE
SHELTER
AGRICULTURAL
INNOVATION
CULTURE
ARCHAEOLOGY
NOMADS
CIVILIZATION
IRRIGATE
SHEPHERDED
ADAPTABLE
14
10
7
11
13
1
4
3
9
2
6
15
5
8
12
Across
2. an advanced state of human social development
4. the study of human history through the analysis of physical remains and artifacts
5. organisms that feed on waste rather than hunting live prey
8. able to adjust or change to promote survival under different conditions
10. members of a broad group of humanlike species that walk upright
12. a structure for temporary protection from the elements
13. the customs, knowledge, and beliefs of a group of people
15. an alloy of copper with very little tin and sometimes other elements, such as zinc or lead
Down
1. involved, developed, complicated, or complex
3. having to do with farming, including soil cultivation, growing crops, and keeping livestock
6. herded or guided
7. a new idea, method, or technology
9. the quality of being a crude or temporary substitute
11. to bring water to dry land for crop growth through artificial means
14. people who have no permanent residence but move from place to place, often seasonally
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Look past the urban centers, the Internet, bullet trains, cars, and tall ships to a time before civilization – to the Stone Age, about two and a half million years ago. Pause, look around, and get ready to move forward. For kids studying pre-historic times, this issue follows humanlike species and Homo sapiens from the Stone Age through the Agricultural Revolution, and chronicles major changes in the development of tools, modes of survival, and culture.
Kids fascinated by survival in pre-historic times will enjoy reading about the Neanderthals, about how fire developed, and about how Homo sapiens changed from scavengers to hunter-gatherers able to hunt mammoths many times their size. Visually oriented kids will enjoy the maps showing human migration and captions describing the people on different continents.
Kids who want to know details about how we come by our knowledge of early people will enjoy taking in images and text that depict researchers at work collecting samples for carbon-dating and DNA analysis. For kids curious about the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers, they can read about how the change led to the growth of villages and towns, to the domestication of sheep and goats, even to a change in the clothing people wore, and the beginnings of a class system.
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Meet the Hunter-Gatherers
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Here Comes Homo Sapiens
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Who Lived in the Stone Age?
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The Mystery of Prehistory
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The Stone Age Toolbox
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The Agricultural Revolution
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From Farm to Village
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The First Towns
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