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 ______________________________

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Middle Ages

• Stone Ages

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

• agriculture

• domestication

• development

• megaliths

The development of _________________________changed human society forever.

• agriculture

• domestication

• plants

• animals

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

• false

• true

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

• elements

• super powers

• cardinal directions

• quadrants

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

• true

• false

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

• metal

• mud

• gravel

• gold

In some areas, farming communities developed into _____________________ .

• towns

• cities

• metropolitan areas

• Perry County

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

• true

• false

Which of the following statements might be true about population?

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

• Human populations grew once people were able to control their own monuments.

• Human populations grew once people were able to make better cave paintings.

• Human populations grew once people were able to go to dance and sing.