Section Assessment/Section 3: Beginnings of Agriculture

Historians call the shift from food gathering to food producing that occurred during the New Stone Age the ______________________________

The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans is called __________________________

The development of _________________________changed human society forever.

Monuments are huge stones that were used as monuments or as the sites of religious gatherings in prehistoric times.

Historians suspect that early people believed in gods and goddesses associated with the four ______________________ —air, water, fire, and earth—or with animals.

Some people learned to animals domesticate in order to have meat and milk without following wild herds.

Toolmakers in southwest Asia and Egypt began to make tools out of _______________.

In some areas, farming communities developed into _____________________ .

Human populations grew once people were able to control their own food production.

Which of the following statements might be true about population?