Old Stone Age
What is the name for the "old stone age"?
Paleolithic
What is the name for the "new stone age"?
Neolithic
What was the greatest benefit to people when farming began?
Stable food supply.
Why did Neolithic people start decorating pottery and polishing stones?
They cared about beauty.
Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of so many settlements?
Good soil for crops.
What was the primary job of someone in the Paleolithic?
Hunting and Gathering
What huge change happened that created the Neolithic age?
Farming, or agriculture
What is another word for growing crops and domesticating animals?
Agriculture
People doing spinning, weaving, making baskets, and creating tools is an example of what development in the Neolithic?
Specialized jobs.
What was a change that resulted from building permanent shelters?
New ways of cooking food in clay-lined pits.
What determined where Paleolithic people lived?
Where the food was.
The Neolithic period ended with the Bronze age. This meant that people discovered how to do what?
Make metal tools.
What does it mean to domesticate an animal?
Make it useful to people.
Why did Neolithic people trade?
To get resources they lacked.
What was the name of the big Neolithic settlement in the Fertile Crescent?
Catal Hoyuk
What types of homes did Paleolithic people live in?
Temporary shelters like tents or caves.
Why did Neolithic people build houses with doorways built high up on the walls?
Better protection from harsh weather and wild animals.
What was one animal that was domesticated mainly for meat and milk in the Neolithic period?
Goat
How did trade help Neolithic people make stronger tools?
They got better materials like obsidian from other areas.
What did people make their homes out of in the Neolithic age?
Mud bricks
What is the word for people who have no permanent home?
Nomad, or nomadic
How did dividing up work help Neolithic communities?
People developed a variety of skills.
Agriculture led to what five major changes for people in the Neolithic period?
Permanent Shelters
Stable Food Supply
Trade
Large Communities
Specialized Jobs
What happened when Neolithic people traveled and traded with other communities?
Why did Neolithic people live together in larger groups than Paleolithic people?
They had more food to support more people.