Lesson 3- Vocab/ Study Guide Flashcards
Agriculture
The business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
Catal Hoyuk
A Neolithic town discovered in the central turkey
Domesticate
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans
Efficiently
Working well producing very little waste
Enabled
To provide the means or ability to do something
Fertile Crescent
An arc-shaped region in southwest Asia with rich soil.
Major
Very important
Neolithic age
The later part of the Stone Age called the New Stone Age lasted from around 8000 to 3000 B.C.E
Nomad
One who moves from place to place with no permanent home
Paleolithic age
The first period of the Stone Age called the old Stone Age from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E
Rectangular
Having the shape of a rectangle
Resource
Something that can be used to fulfill a need
Temporary
For a limited time
Trade
The business of buying and selling or exchanging items
Name the change that began the neiolithic age about 8000 B.C.E
They started trading for things they didn’t have in there area.
How did people in the Paleolithic age get their food?
They obtained food by gathering and hunting
The Fertile Crescent was the site of many early settlements becuase the Was good for crops
Soil
The greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to raise plants and animals was they had a
Source of food
Animals that were domesticated for meat and milk.
Meat: cattle goats and sheep
Milk: cattle and goats
Archeologists have found houses in which rather doorways were built high up on the walls. The most likely reason for this is people wanted to be safe from
To be protected from harsh weathers and to be protected from wild animals
Archaeologists have found decorated pottery and polished stones this suggested that Neolithic people cared about
The way they looked
Communities allowed the Neolithic people to organize themselves to work
Efficiently
The blank of jobs led to better way of doing things
Spcialization
Why did people of the Paleolithic live in temporary shelters
Because they were nomads foso they traveled from place to place
How did Neolithic people trade with other communities
They crossed mountains on foot and ride donkeys across the dessert and sailed the Mediterranean Sea on ships
Permanent shelters allowed contact with other people which sorted blank and blank
Ideas and knowledge
Why did Neolithic people trade
To get resources they didn’t have on the area
To get wanted materials like flint and obsidian and hematite to improve the strength and beauty of things made .
