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Name:____________________________
Date:__________________
Prehistory: Fill-In-The-Blank
Directions: Read the following excerpt and fill in the blanks appropriately. A word bank has
been provided for at the bottom of the page.
The _______________________ began roughly 2.6 million years ago. The earliest
known relatives of human beings, also called _______________________, are believed to
have originated in Africa. One such hominid known as
_______________________differentiated itself from other hominids by walking up right on
two legs. Early humans were _______________________who relied primarily on foraging and
hunting for their food. They were also _______________________, which means they had no
permanent home and followed the migration patterns of animals. Due to their nomadic way of
life, early humans lived in small _______________________ that made it easier to survive
without an abundance of food. Roughly 40,000 years ago, some early humans began
expressing themselves through _______________________which has been found in France
and Indonesia.
The _______________________, also called the “New Stone Age”, began around 10,000
years ago and marks a turning point in human history; Humans beings began to
_______________________animals to use as pets or farm production. For the first time in
human history, humans began produce food through _______________________ by growing
their own food on farms. These new sources of food allowed humans to begin living in
permanent _______________________with much larger populations. No longer needing a
nomadic lifestyle and having an abundance of food from agricultural production allowed
humans to focus their energy into specialized _______________________rather than looking
for food. This event is known as the __________________________________ and paved the
way for the first _______________________to emerge.
WORD BANK
Neolithic Age
settlements
jobs
nomadic
Paleolithic Age
domesticate
Agricultural
Revolution
civilizations
clans
Australopithecus
agriculture
cave art
hunter-gatherers
hominids