First Farmers (Videos) Flashcards
What is the Bantu Migration?
The spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa, in a process that started circa 3,000 b.c.e. and continued for several millennia.
What are Pastoral Societies?
Human societies that rely on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food; pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a single location.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A region sometimes known as Southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, and southern Turkey; the earliest home of agriculture.
What is Jericho?
A site of an important early agricultural settlement of perhaps 2,000 people in present-day Israel.
What is Mesopotamia?
The valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq.
What is “Secondary Products Revolution?”
A term used to describe the series of technological changes that began circa 4,000 b.c.e., as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals, exploiting a revolutionary new source of power.
What are Stateless Societies?
Village-based agricultural societies, usually organized by kinship groups, that functioned without a formal government apparatus.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
The Old Stone Age which lasted until about 10,000 years ago (3,000 years after the last Ice Age).
What are Nomads?
People who moved from place to place.
What are Foragers?
Hunters and Gatherers.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
A time period where people started to farm plants and animals and domesticate them.
What is Intensification?
Getting more food and resources with less land and general effort.
What things make a Civilization a Civilization?
Cities, a Political System, Specialization, Status Distinctions, Monumental Building, Record Keeping, Trade, and major advances in Science and Art.
What is Diffusion?
The gradual spread of agricultural techniques without extensive population movement.
What is Domestication?
The taming and changing of nature for the benefit of humankind.
