Stone age vs Ancient Egypt

Palaeolithic Lifestyle definition and reason

Moved constantly because the hunter gatherers had to follow migrating animal herds and seasonal wild plant supplies.

Neolithic Lifestyle definition and reason

Settled farming because of Crop cultivation (clearing land to plant seeds, tending crops and harvesting them for food and materials instead of picking wild plants.) and Animal Domestication (taming wild animals for a reliable source of food, labor, and materials.)

The social hierarchy definition and example from Egyptians

A system where people were ranked by power and wealth. The example is that the Pharaoh was the top (ruled like a god), then priests, then builders, then peasants and slaves at the bottom.

Why did Egypt need irrigation (Moving water from a river to fields to hell crops grow) and compare it to the Stone Age

They needed it to direct water from the Nile floods into their farms to grow extra food. Compared to the stone age, stone age relied on the unpredictable rain whilst Ancient Egypt made canals (man made waterways built to transport water) to control the Nile’s flood.

Hieroglyphics (written pictures used for laws, taxes and records) vs Stone age communication

Stone age people only used spoken words and cave paintings whilst the Ancient Egyptians made made Hieroglyphics

Neolithic Period

People stopped migrating around and started building permanent mud houses and farming specific fields. They also had a warmer climate and hunted for smaller animals like wild birds and only caught fish.

Metalworking Stone Age vs Egypt

The Stone age people only used simple and heavy stone tools whilst the Ancient Egyptians learnt how to mix and make metal (bronze and copper) to make stronger tools.

Problems of Neolithic Farming

Living too close together in villages caused diseases being spread fast and causing fights and wars about who owned the land and who stored the food.

Palaeolithic vs Ancient Egyptian burial and religion

The Palaeolithic believed spirits lived in nature and had very simple graves whilst the Egyptians believed in many gods and the afterlife, used mummification and built giant pyramids.

How geography affected Stone Age vs Ancient Egypt

Stone age had to move if the weather got hot or cold whilst the Egyptians stayed in one place because they had the Nile river and the dessert blocked enemies.

Definition of crop cultivation

Cleaning land, planting seeds, and growing your own plants for food instead of just picking wild ones.

Definition of crop cultivation

Cleaning land, planting seeds, and growing your own plants for food instead of just picking wild ones.

Definition of Animal Domestication

Taming wild animals (like sheep and cows) and breeding them so they can give humans regular meat, milk and can help on farms.