Wednesday:Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution

Three Paleolithic Age Achievements are:

• improved technology, cave art, ability to make fire.

• Animal skin clothes, cave art, writing on paper

Ice ages are long periods of very cold temperatures on Earth.

• True

• False

The steady supply of food in the Neolithic Age allowed people to do different types of work that did not involve farming. What do we call this?

• Hunting

• Specialization

• Religion

• Technology

According to the timeline in your notes, when did the last Ice Age begin?

• 200,000 BC

• 100,000 BC

The use of new ideas and tools to do work is called

• technology

• paleontology

Why did farming lead to permanent villages? 

• people grew too much food to travel 
• people needed to stay and tend their crops
• people had to make pottery to hold fo

During the Neolithic Age, the population was able to grow because ______.

• many animals that were dangerous to humans died off

• people had a steady supply of food

People who migrate from place to place are called...

• farmers

• paleolithic

• laborers

• nomads

Paleolithic people would most likely to do which of the following?

• build permanent homes
• Live a nomadic lifestyle

After the last Ice Age, many nomads 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