Topic 6 Test Review East Geo

a period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants

• cultural diffusion

• agriculture revolution

• domesticate

a person who moves from place to place

• nomad

• migration

• hunter-gatherer

the ways people apply knowledge and tools & structures to do work

• migration

• domesticate

• technology

Besides helping people obtain goods from far away, why was trading important?

• It led to people making stone, rather than metal, tools.
• It forced people to move from the cities to rural areas.
• It helped spread ideas across a broad area.
• It led to a decrease in population.

Where do many scientists believe that human life began?

• North America

• China

• Asia

• Africa

Rivers and flooding are helpful to civilizations to grow food by

• destroying buildings.

• drowning livestock.

• adding rich nutrients to create fertile soil.

• watering the fields.

Early civilizations settled near

• mountains.

• deserts.

• tundras.

• rivers.

The economy of early villages and cites was based mainly on

• trade.

• farming.

• hunting and gathering.

• the production of tools.

to grow and tend wild plants or animals

• domesticate

• nomad

• migration

person who obtains food by hunting animals and gathering plants, and moves when food becomes scarce

• anthropologist

• hunter-gatherer

• nomad