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Topic 2-Old Stone Age Notes

1) What is the time span of the Old Stone Age?

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2) What do we call the earliest man known to have lived on earth?

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3) Did this man change his environment?

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4) Man probably got his first food by

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5) What foods did early man get by the above method?

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6) What method of gathering food did the Stone Age man eventually use along with gathering?
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7) What kind of weapons did the earliest man use to hunt?

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8) When man began to change his environment he entered the

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9) What are two types of shelters man used in this age?

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10) What kinds of tools and weapons did man make that made it easier to hunt and change his
environment?
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 11) Name four possible uses Stone Age man had for fire:
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12) For what purpose did man band together into large clans?
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13) What are the contributions of Old Stone Age man?

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Directions: Using your notes above, your knowledge of social studies, and the our textbook, complete the
graphic organizer below.

Tools:
Food:
Old Stone Age

New Ideas/Inventions

Methods: