Paleolithic & Neolithic era
Paleolithic era: Old Stone age
Neolithic era: New stone page
- Began 2.6 million years ago
- Characterized by the creation of stone tools
- Nomads- people who move from place to place
- Hunter- Gatherers- hunted animals and collected plant foods.
- Nomads- people who move from place to place
- Made spears
- Digging sticks
- Ston, bone, wood of tools
Neolithic era: New stone page
- Neolithic revolution: The discovery of agriculture and domestication of animals.
- Shift from food gathering to food production.
- Farming leads to the rise of villages and end of nomads.
- Domestication- taming of animals
- Horses. dogs ,goats, pigs
Village grow & prosper
- Africa:
- Nile river
- grow wheat, barley
- China:
- Huang river
- millet, wild rice
- Mexico:
- corn, bean, squash
Neo= "new"
- Vocab. Polytheistic: religion that believe in more then one god.