Agricultural Revolution Vocabulary

New Stone Age; the time when farming was invented and when people started caring for animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs

• Copper Age

• Mesolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

the cultivating of the soil, producing of crops, and raising of livestock; farming

• engineering

• industry

• agriculture

• horticulture

moving from place to place rather than living in one place all the time

• reside

• sedentary

• nomadic

• domesticate

Old Stone Age; refers to the prehistoric period when stone tools were made by humans

• Paleolithic Age

• Iron Age

• Mesolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

inhabiting the same place throughout life; not migratory or nomadic; not moving; staying in one place

• domestication

• nomadic

• mobility

• sedentary

the process by which a division of labor occurs as different workers specialize in different jobs over time

• job specialization

• guild

• domestication

• apprenticeship

the taming of plants or animals for human use, such as work or as food

• animal husbandry

• horticulture

• domestication

• pastoral society

Middle Stone Age; a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age

• Neolithic Age

• Bronze Age

• Mesolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

a very great change in something that causes many other things to change

• revolution

• contemporary

• technology

• pledge

the earliest known period of human culture, marked by the creation and use of stone tools

• Iron Age

• Bronze Age

• Copper Age

• Stone Age