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Specialization includes people who...

• are very good at one skill.

• grow all their own food.

• speak one language very well

• can solve almost any problem.

Why is the birth of farming called a 'revolution'?

• Life changed some.

• Life did not change at all.

• Life changed completely.

• Life changed a little.

What can you do with domesticated animals?

• watch them hunt

• study their origins

• hunt them for food

• use them for work or food

What happens when there's a surplus of food?

• extra food spoils, there's lots of waste

• not enough rain falls to grow food, so crops die

• families have extra food, so population increases

• people wait in line for food, which gets distributed

What made the first villages and communities possible to develop?

• warm clothing

• strong armies

• a common government

• development of farming

People were first able to start living in settled communities when...

• they domesticated plants and animals.

• they grew tired of hunting and gathering

• they began to trade with nearby villages.

• they perfected a system of writing

Explain how farming changed the way people dressed.

Explain how agriculture and livestock farming is present in YOUR everyday life.