Cset Social Science Subtest I:
Prehistory And The First Humans And
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Paleolithic Era - ANSWER✔✔The time period know as the "old stone age" which
preceded the Neolithic period.
Time: 2 million to 10,000 years ago
Importance: This period was the foundation for modern tools because it contained
the first tools made from stone.
Mesopotamia - ANSWER✔✔The ancient region between the Tigris and the
Euphrates rivers which was where civilization began. Name means "land between
rivers".
Time: 8000 B.C.E.
Importance: This region is where many important historical events and cities were
located.
Agricultural Revolution - ANSWER✔✔A transition from hunter gatherer lifestyle
to a farming and livestock raising lifestyle. Plant and animal domestication.
Sometimes called Neolithic Revolution
Time: First one happened 10,000 years ago
Potter's wheel - ANSWER✔✔a technological advance in pottery making; invented
circa 6000 B.C.E.; encouraged faster and higher quality ceramic pottery products.
, Prehistory - ANSWER✔✔the period of time before written records
Archeology - ANSWER✔✔the study of ancient cultures based on artifacts and
other remains
Hominids - ANSWER✔✔human-like creatures that walk upright and have
opposable thumbs
Time: about four million years ago
Australopithecus - ANSWER✔✔"southern ape"; hominid that appeared in Africa
4-5 million years ago; stood upright and walked on 2 legs; brain was only 1/3 the
size of our brains today. "Lucy" is a famous example of this.
Homo habilis - ANSWER✔✔"able man"; Lived in East Africa ~2 millions years
ago. Larger brain than predecessor; first to use stone tools
Homo erectus - ANSWER✔✔"upright man"; ~1.5 million years ago; longer arms
and legs; first to make fire; probably first to leave Africa
Homo sapiens - ANSWER✔✔"wise man"; ~400,000 years ago; made tools from
stone, animal bone, horns; developed new farming/hunting techniques; large brains
and small jaws; became the main species
Homo sapiens sapiens - ANSWER✔✔"wise, wise humans,"; ~200,000 years ago;
includes today's modern humans; spread around world ~100,000 years ago
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