Paleolithic-Neolithic Stone age and the Agriculture Revolution

How did agriculture affect how humans spent their time?

• They lived day to day.
• People can only grow certain crops
• People had time to do other things

when people focus working on a single job or activity

• surplus
• specialization
• technology
• practice

another word for farming

• agriculture
• technology
• specialization
• shrine

having more than what is needed

• prehistory
• surplus
• Bronze Age
• agriculture

What made it possible to feed large groups of people?

• specialization
• rice paddies
• New farming methods and tools
• Crop rotation

_______________ improved the way people lived during the Neolithic Era.

• surplus production
• population growth
• agriculture

What did farmers do to make more farmlands?

• crop rotation
• cleared forests
• domesticated animals

How did specialization improve communities?

• Communities grew larger and wealthier.
• It improved food production.
• People did not need to work hard.

What method did communities use that assured of more animal products to eat?

• surplus
• crop rotation
• specialization
• domestication

What did communities do with their surplus products?

• They traded with other communities.
• They threw them away.
• Made other products out of it.