Chapter 2 Early Farmers and City Dwellers

What did the worlds earliest farmers figure out for the first time?

• how to select wild seeds for planting
• how to cut down trees and dig in the earth
• how to find food plants that grew in their region

Which is a list of domesticated animals?

• cattle, wolves, bears
• lions, gazelles, hyenas
• goats, sheep, pigs

What was one effect of surplus food among agricultural people?

• drought
• increase in trade
• slash-and-burn farming

What was one challenge people faced as Earth's climate changed after the last Ice Age?

• no land to live on
• drought
• too many animals

What does it mean to "domesticate" animals?

• hunt them
• chase them
• tame them

What is the meaning of "agriculture"?

• not eating meat or fish
• hunting and gathering
• the knowledge of raising plants and animals

Choose one way people used surplus food.

• to feed to animals
• to trade with others
• to throw away

What was one resource cities developed around?

• plants
• family
• water

What was one tool early farmers developed that could make the job of preparing soil much easier?

• sticks
• plow
• fork

When the farmers did not have enough rain, they discovered __________________ which helped them bring water to their crops.

• irrigation
• rivers
• hoses