First Farmers

The stone age gets its name from

• how people grew their food
• the material used to make tools
• the flintsotnes

During the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, people obtained food by

• Hunting and Gathering
• Farming
• Food Shooping

The Neolithic Age ended when people began to make tools out of

• Stone
• Metal
• Bone

Section 3.3: Growing of crops and Domestication of farming is called agriculture. A benefit of agriculture is 

• people were more prone to disease
• it led to a stable food supply
• they no longer needed weapons

Section 3.4: A benefit of permanent shelters is

• that they were made of mud
• people probably climbed a ladder to enter
• Life was more comfortable and allowed people to form larger communities

Section 3.5: Which was NOT an advantage of community living?

• Time to invent new ways of making life safer and more comfortable
• People were more prone to diseases
• Could defend themselves more easily

Section 3.6: People in Catal Hoyuk 

• spent most of their time finding food to survive
• focused on and specialized in one job. 
• often fought among each other. 

Section 3.7: A valuable item traded was used to make knife blades and mirrors was a volcanic glass called

• lava
• obsidian
• hematite

The most significant development of the Neolithic age was ________ because it led to a stable food supply.

• agriculture
• permanent shelters
• trade

Items people need to survive are called...

• resources
• desires
• supplies