Early Farmer And City Dwellers

Question 1

Because of farming livestock…

Answer 1

They could produce more food

Question 2

Because of farming settlement…

Answer 2

Instead of hunting and gathering they settled into their environments.

Question 3

Because of farming land ownership…

Answer 3

Passed down land to other generations of family’s.

Question 4

Because of farming surplus…

Answer 4

Ad more food and people shared with other settlements.

Question 5

Because of farming the rules…

Answer 5

The early people had more order in their community

Question 6

When did the ice age end?

Answer 6

10000 years ago.

Question 7

How did people survive during the ice age?

Answer 7

They learned to adapt and modify their environment

Question 8

What were the 3 challenges of finding food?

Answer 8

1) animals became extinct,
2) there were droughts which caused food shortages.
3) where there was food populations grew.

Question 9

What happened because of the 3 challenges?

Answer 9

People became better at storing food and others developed new weapons for hunting smaller prey.

Question 10

What happened because of the food shortages?

Answer 10

People learned to domesticate plants and animals. They learned to plant seeds from wild plants to grow new ones and they tamed animals for their own use.

Question 11

What is livestock?

Answer 11

Domesticated animals that provide resources for a main source of meat.

Question 12

What does agriculture mean?

Answer 12

The knowledge of raising plants and animals.

Question 13

What did people do that knew agriculture?

Answer 13

They began to farm and built longer lasting shelters and in permanent settlements.

Question 14

What is the beginning of agriculture referred as?

Answer 14

Agriculture revolution.

Question 15

What were the effects of agriculture?

Answer 15

1) produce larger food supply’s
2) increased population
3) permanent settlements
4) people worked together
5) people began to organize
6) people developed rules for their community

Question 16

Agriculture brought a steady source of_______…

Answer 16

Food

Question 17

What does surplus mean?

Answer 17

Extra supply of something

Question 18

What were the surplus used for?

Answer 18

They were for planting for the next season
Food in times of drought
Loan to help other people/ settlements to foster friend
Traded for food and goods not found in area.

Question 19

Over time the growth of trade would lead to more …

Answer 19

Adanced societies

Question 20

What did successful farming communities grow?

Answer 20

Surplus food for harsh times.

Question 21

What happened to communities tat grew a lot of surplus food?

Answer 21

Populations grew.

Settlements grew into villages wit up to several hundred people.

Question 22

What was Terrence farming?

Answer 22

Cutting steps of flat land into sides of hills and mountains. This is considered a complex/advanced farming technology.

Question 23

What were the benefits of terraces?

Answer 23

Made more flat land available for farming.

Protected villages from destructive floods.

Question 24

What was the plow?

Answer 24

They were used to cut lift and turn over soil In time a wooden or stone blade made the plow faster

Question 25

What were the benefits of plow advancements?

Answer 25

Fewer people could plant larger crops.

Hard and rocky soil became usable for growing crops.

Question 26

What does irrigation mean?

Answer 26

Ways to move water to land.

Ditches brought water from rivers to crops.

Question 27

What were the benefits of irrigation?

Answer 27

No longer dependent on rain to water crops.

Cut down on the physical labor of transporting water to fields.

Question 28

What was the huge overall benefit of improved agriculture technology?

Answer 28

Surplus crops.

Question 29

What were some kinds of economic surpluses?

Answer 29

Successful farming villages produced a surplus food.

Some also produced surpluses of valuable resources.

Question 30

What is a resource?

Answer 30

Raw material that comes from nature and used to make a valuable product( used for stone tool making )
Others produced surpluses of goods( objects like pottery)

Question 31

What did trade grow?

Answer 31

They grew economic surpluses

Question 32

What does barter mean?

Answer 32

To trade for things people wanted(before money)

By trading people could get things they wanted or needed.
For example Catal Huyuk became trading center of obsidian (volcanic glass)

Question 33

When trading between villages grew what else grew?

Answer 33

The need for leadership.

Question 34

Where did the leaders come from?

Answer 34

They came from the most Important families.

Question 35

What did the leaders control?

Answer 35

Controlled trade.

Resolved conflicts.

Question 36

What was the direction of progress for early farming societies?

Answer 36

Farming to subsist 
Farming villages 
Development in technology
Bartering
Need for leadership

Question 38

What was farming villages?

Answer 38

They were producing more than enough food to feed many people

Question 39

What was the development in technology?

Answer 39

The new tools helped them farm more efficiently and faster to produce more crops.

Question 40

What did bartering do?

Answer 40

Villages could use surpluses food to exchange goods and food with other villages.

Question 41

What was need for leadership?

Answer 41

Important family groups gained power to become leaders in their community’s.

Question 42

What is farming to subsist?

Answer 42

Only producing enough crops and livestock for themselfs.