Early Civilizations: Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Important Unit Vocabulary: Please define each term below

Absolute monarch –

City-state –

Civilization –

Direct Democracy –

Domestication –

Dynasty –

Empire –

Hierarchy –

Hunter-gatherer –

Pastoral Nomad –

Republic –

Sedentary –

Section Questions: Please fill in the blank and/or answer all short answer questions in complete sentences.
1. Living as hunter-gatherers, the earliest humans appeared an estimated years
ago.

2. Adapting to the change in climates such as hot and cold periods, hunter-gatherers were

largely .

3. How did hunter-gatherers clothes themselves in the early civilizations?

4. Hunter-gatherers lived in caves and shelters built out of materials such as:

1.
2.
3.
5. Hunter-gatherers crafted tools out of materials such as:

1.
2.
3.
4.
6. Due to the widespread use of stone tools the period in history that stretched from 2.5
million years ago to 3000 BCE is know as the .

7. What are the names of the two time periods that archaeologists split in the Stone Age?

8. List 3 items that hunter-gatherers gathered in the meadows and open plains:
1.
2.
3.

9. List 3 game animals that hunter-gatherers hunted:

1.
2.
3.

10. What did early human civilizations have to do to maintain a successful hunting and
gathering economy?

11. What helped determine where these early civilizations moved/traveled/lived?

12. How was the hunter-gatherer’s economy based on a division of labor?

13. What happened when different hunter-gatherer groups met? Good or bad:

14. Near the end of the Paleolithic period how did hunter-gather communities become more
complex?
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