Neolithic Revolution

What is it called when you produce more crops or food than needed to feed the society?

• Job Specialization

• Surplus

• Leftovers

• Wasteful

Skilled craftspeople, who made pottery, finely carved statues, or woven goods.

• artisan

• zookeeper

• hunter-gather

• nomad

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

1.  What did the Neolithic Revolution bring about?

• a.  Storms
• a.  Drought
• a.  Agriculture

People who move from place to place in search of food.

What did the Neolithic people discover?

• agriculture

• metal

• toys

• stone tools

When there is a surplus of food, there is

• not enough food for everyone

• more food than is needed

• a group of people waiting in line for food

_{What was the greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to raise plants and animals?}

• easy travel

• people shared all work

• they kept pets

• there was a stable food supply

Nomads are people who

• move from place to place

• settle in a permanent home

During the Neolithic Revolution

• People learned to grow food
• People migrated to find food
• People were nomadic