Early People/The Beginning of Agriculture

Early people knew a lot about their surroundings or their

• environment.

• transportation.

• education.

• government.

Until about 10,000 years ago, people could only make things from stone and wood. This period of time is called the

• Technology Era.

• Recess.

• Industrial Revolution.

• Old Stone Age.

This is any tool or invention used to complete a task.

• Mythology

• Technology

• Agriculture

These are objects made and used by people in the past. Archaeologist, scientists who study early people, have learned about the Old Stone Age by studying these

• caves.

• fire.

• artifacts.

• bones.

This changed human life, when people learned how to make...

The ways of growing crops and raising animals is called

• literature.

• agriculture.

• mining.

• dairy.

There was no money, so they traded products rather than cash. This kind of trade is called

• barter.

• ATM machine.

• banking.

• jello.

By the time people were living in small villages, they had learned to domesticate animals and wild plants. to domesticate means to raise something to be useful to people. Which answers below are examples of domesticated animals?

• grizzly bear

• cow

• horse

• dog

True or False. Early people studied the weather?

• True

• False

They hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food.

• farmers

• ranchers

• hunter-gatherers

• mailman