Nomadic Life
What are the people who move from place to place in search of food called?
Hunter-gatherers
What was the major change from hunting and gathering to farming called?
The Agricultural Revolution
What is type of trade system where goods and services are exchanged without money called?
Barter economy
What are devices used to hunt, gather, and build called?
tools
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific Ocean
Prehistory
What is the process of taming and raising animals for human use called?
domestication
What happened to human communities as farming improved and food became more reliable?
Populations began to grow
What did pottery help store and transport?
food and water
What continent is home to the Nile River and the Sahara Desert?
Africa
What were most hunter-gatherer tools made from?
Stone
Around 8,000 B.C., what happened to the climate that made farming possible?
What is the term for the exchange of goods and ideas between cultures?
Why did farmers build permanent shelters?
Because they no longer needed to move for their food source.
What abbreviation on a timeline means "Before Christ"?
B.C.
What materials were hunter-gatherer shelters made from?
Animal skin and plant materials
What happened with food that allowed populations to grow? (Think how much)
They grew a surplus of food.
Once settlements began to exist, what materials did societies begin to create clothing from?
Wool and cotton
What is the term for the spread of new tools, techniques, goods, and ideas between cultures?
Cultural diffusion
What abbreviation means "in the year of our Lord"?
A.D.
What discovery allowed humans to cook food, keep warm, and scare away animals?
Fire
What happened in terms of labor once there was a surplus of food?
People began to specialize in labor.
What kind of shelters did people live in during the Agricultural Revolution? What were they made of?
Permanent shelters, mud bricks
What did hunter-gatherers use to hunt BEFORE stone?
wooden clubs and cliffs
Put the events in order:
3000 CE, 2500 BCE, 200 CE, 200 BCE, 8000 CE, 1700 BCE
2500 BCE, 1700 BCE, 200 BCE, 200 CE, 3000 CE, 8000 CE