Early Humans & The Agricultural Rev.

The Agricultural Revolution refers to the time when early humans:

• mastered fire and began to use it for everyday life

• developed farming techniques, which allowed them to settled down

• migrated from Africa to places far way like antarctica

• organized governments, which had been established with the Early Humans

 After the last Ice Age, many nomads (Early Humans) moved into areas with a milder climate and fertile land. As a consequence ______eventually replaced hunting and gathering as the main source of food.

• Shrines

• Farming

• Systematic agriculture

• River valley

What was the most important and long-lasting effect that the Agricultural Revolution had on people's lives?

• New types of stone tools were made

• People completely stopped hunting and gathering

• The population grew at a faster rate, and people settled into communities

• People began eating wild grains

What is domestication?

• The condition where one has more than one needs

• The process of changing animals and plants to make them more useful for humans

• Building homes in order to stay in one place permanently

• The period when people moved from food gathering to food producing

What is the term we use to describe the discovery and implementation of farming into human civilization?

• The Agricultural Revolution

• The Grain Production Cycle

• The Paleolithic Era

• The Growing Age

The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.

• Paleolithic

• Neolithic

• Mesopotamia

• Ice Age

Which of the following was a major advancement of the Early Humans?

• Maps

• Government Systems

• Fire

• Writing/Hand Written Language

The Ice Age resulted in people crossing a land bridge from which two continents?

• Asia to North America

• North America to South America

• Africa to Asia

• Europe to Asia

Why was the agricultural revolution significant in human history?

• People began living in smaller family groups and depending less on others.

• More people began living as nomads and were able to travel to better climates.

• People became farmers and no longer had to depend on hunting and gathering.

• People learned to work together to kill large animals.

What is migration?

• a hunter-gatherer

• movement from one place to another.

• chewing with your mouth open

• doing a back flip