Ch. 3 - from hunters to farmers

What was the purpose of animals used for domestication -

• for milk

• wool and skin

• invention of wheel

• agricultural work

Who is a nomad?

• Someone who farms and gathers food

• Someone who moves around from place to place

• Someone who settles down in one place

• Someone who hunts animals.

The later part of the Stone Age lasted from around 8,000 B.C.E. to 3,000 B.C.E. What is it called ?

• Iron Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Middle Stone Age

What was the greatest benefit when people began farming?

• they had more time to relax
• they had better-tasting food
• they had a stable food supply
• they had enough water for crops

Historians divide the Stone Age into the Paleolithic Age, the Mesolithic Age and the --

• Old Stone Age

• New Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Middle Stone Age

1 difference between paleolithic and Neolithic Age

• The man was a nomad in the paleolithic age and man lived a sedentary life in the Neolithic age

• The man in the paleolithic age knew pottery making and the man in Neolithic age did not know pottery-making

• Man clothed himself with animal skin in the Neolithic age and weaved clothes for himself in the paleolithic age.

• Man was a scavenger in the paleolithic age and was a food-gatherer in the neolithic age

True or False?

Neolithic people knew how to grow crops and built shelters

• True

• False

Fill in the blank

in the Neolithic Age people started to ________ and produce their own food

• sit

• hunt

• farm

• sleep

When did the earliest agricultural settlement in the Indian sub-continent see gradual shift to cultivation of food crops and domestication of animals from dependence on wild animals ?

• 8000 BCE

• 700 BCE

• 7000 BCE

• 6500 BCE

The Neolithic culture of the northeast region in India is characterized by ?

• Shouldered Celts

• small ground axes

• Quartz Particles

• Wheels and goats

• Animal bones