From Nomads to Farmers

The use of stone tools ushered in what is called the?

• Tool Age

• Stone Age

• Bronze Age

What invention allowed people to move into the bronze age?

• Hunting and Gathering

• Inventing the wheel

• Farming

• Learning how to make metal tools by taking metal from rock

What does Nomadic Lifestyle mean?

• Always on the move (no permanent home)

• having a grand lifestyle like a king/queen

• living in Nomad

Why did Nomads have to stay on the move?

• To protect themselves from wild animals

• To find food to survive (no farms yet)

• To spread religion (cultural diffusion)

• To find new territory

How did humans arrive in the Americas from Africa, Asia, and Europe if they had not invented boats to sail across the ocean yet?

• They built canoes/rafts

• They flew planes

• They swam

• They followed animals across the land bridge

How was their a land bridge previously but does not exist anymore?

• the water level of the ocean was 300 feet lower than today because of the water trapped in massive glaciers

• There was not a land bridge

• there was a land bridge but it was destroyed by a volcano

• The land bridge was there but eventually became individual islands

A study of _____________ shows evidence of migration by studying their genes and the language they speak today.

• Genetic history

• Radiocarbon dating

• Linguistics

• history

Why did people develop different looks?

• Adaptations based on the sun, wind, temperature, and food, etc. of where they lived

• Genetic history

• Because many generations have passed in the last 50,000 years

What was the MOST IMPORTANT development in human history?

• The wheel

• the wagon

• tools

• farming

Which word means to control the breeding to create the most desirable crop or animal?

• Control Breeding

• Select Breeding

• Domestication

• Control Cropping