Agriculture and Settlement Vocabulary

barter

• taming of plants and animals

• buying and selling of goods

• growing of crops

• moving from place to place

cultivate

• trading of goods

• not living in a permanent place

• to prepare land and use it for growing crops

• taming of plants and animals

to have more than what is needed

• surplus

• nomad

• barter

• domesticate

The physical surroundings in which plants, animals and humans live

• climate

• pastoral

• Fertile Crescent

• environment

a complex society

• civilization

• nomad

• empire

• culture

an independent kingdom or state made up of a city and the surrounding lands it controls

• Fertile Crescent

• social class

• city-state

• empire

Farming; producing plants and animals for human use

• pastoral

• agriculture

• domesticate

• revolution

domesticate

• raising livestock and animals as a source of food

• growing an abundance of food

• taming of plants and animals

• moving from place to place

A person who gets their food by hunting, fishing or foraging (collecting plants)

• artisan

• peasant

• nomad

• hunter-gatherer

the process of becoming expert in a particular subject or skill

• specialization

• artisan

• pottery

• nomad