Friday's Class

• Prehistory- human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
• Paleolithic Age (Stone Age)- At sites dating from the Lower Paleolithic Period (about 2,500,000 to 200,000 years ago), simple pebble tools have been found in association with the remains of what may have been the earliest human ancestors.
• Neolithic Age- The term Neolithic or New Stone Age is most frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and animal domestication was introduced. Because agriculture developed at different times in different regions of the world, there is no single date for the beginning of the Neolithic. 
• AgriculturalRevolution- a significant change in agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries,inventions, or new technologies that change production
• Cuneiform- Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.
• Ziggurat- (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerianorigin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.
• Indo-Europeans- The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects.