Section 1: The Agricultural Revolution

Question 1

to change the behavior of a population of animals or plants in ways that are useful to humans

Answer 1

domesticate

Question 2

more than people need to feed themselves

Answer 2

surplus

Question 3

to spend most of one’s time working at a craft

Answer 3

specialize

Question 4

a complete change in ways of thinking, working or living

Answer 4

revolution

Question 5

When the last Ice Age ended, about 12,000 years ago, a long period of ____ began

Answer 5

global warming

Question 6

Early people wanted to change their environment so that it would _____

Answer 6

Produce more food

Question 7

______ appeared independently in different areas of the world.

Answer 7

Farming

Question 8

Historians call the remarkable shift from hunting to farming _______

Answer 8

revolution

Question 9

Çatalhöyük is one of the oldest known

Answer 9

Porto-City settlements

Question 10

Name two other ways in which life for farmers was better than life for hunter-gatherers.

Answer 10

Farmers could have surplus food and focus on other things. The farmers could start a settlement and didn’t have to move.