Neolithic Revolution
This event led to settled communities
What is Neolithic Revolution?
Where were early river valley civilizations located near?
What are rivers and oceans?
This was a system that was essential for bringing water to fields located far from rivers.
What is irrigation?
a region in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, where the first early river valley civilizations started
What is Mesopotamia?
A person who hunts wild animals for food and wild berries, plants for food.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
The process of taming wild animals and wild plants.
What is Domestication?
This provided people with extra food.
What is a food surplus?
This helped ancient civilizations lift water from rivers to irrigate their fields.
What is a shaduf?
an early river valley civilization established on the Nile River
What is Ancient Egypt?
Someone who travels for place to place in search of food.
What is a nomad?
This put an end to the hunter-gathering lifestyle.
What is agriculture?
This is how early civilizations communicated with each other
What are written languages and symbols?
These bricks were used to make homes and a structure.
What are mud bricks?
to make changes by introducing new methods, ideas, or products
What is innovation?
The first continent humans appeared on.
What is Africa?
This was a specialized job that took place during the Neolithic Revolution
What are artisans?
This is what makes up a civilization
What is religion, food supply, cities, writing, job specialization, government, social structure, technology, religion?
this farming allows to create steps on hillsides to plant crops.
What is terrace farming?
the act of supplying water to land or crops
What is irrigation?
This is known as the old stone age
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This is the process of exchanging goods and ideas.
What is cultural diffusion?
Ancient civilizations developed this to help manage their resources.
What are innovations?
The cause of irrigation
What is unreliable access to water?
to change a wild plant or animal so it can be grown or raised by humans
What is domestication?
This was their form of technology during the Paleolithic era.
What are stone tools?