☥ Global History - Paleolithic to Ancient River Valley Civilizations ☥

Who is Lucy? Who found her? Why is she significant?

Lucy was a hominid 3.2 million years ago. Her bones were found by archaeologist Donald Johanson. Her bones were the oldest hominid bones ever discovered, and also her bones were important evidence that humans had already walked upright, and that bipedalism came earlier than brain growth.

What are the Laetoli Footprints? Who found them? Why are they significant?

The Laetoli Footprints are a set of footprints 3.6 million years old. Mary Leaky and her husband Louis found them. They proved that ancestors of humans walked upright and lived in Africa, not Asia.

Neolithic Age – what was its other name? What was revolutionized during this time?

The Neolithic Age, also known as the New Stone Age, had revolutionized agriculture

Civilization – what are the characteristics of a civilization?

Think SPICET

S - Social (Interaction, socializing)

P - Political (Government, revolts, revolutions, etc.)

I - Interactions with humans and the environment (Farming, disease, natural disasters, how humans interact with the natural world around us)

C - Cultural (Ideas about religion, belief systems, art, architecture, philosophies)

E - Economic Systems (Money, trade, how people make it)

T - Technological (Achievements, makes life easier)