Vocabulary 1
A complete change in ways of thinking, working, or living.
What is Revolution
A supply of something that can be used as needed
What is resource
What is an example of modifying or changing the environment to farm?
What is
Clearing Trees
Constructing Fences
As crops and herds improved the amount of food....
What is increased
To change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful to humans.
What is Domesticate
A complex society that has cities, a well organized government and workers with specialized job skills
What is Civilization
What was the first animal to be domesticated?
What are dogs
Early farming communities remained...
What is small
More than needed
What is surplus
A set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that created and rule the world
What is religion
What is one tool farmers invented to help them farm more efficiently.
What are
Sickle
Axe
What was one of the first early cities?
What is Uruk
When people spend most of their time working at a single job or craft.
What is specialization
Groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society.
What are Social Classes
Where do most historians believe farming originated?
What is Southwestern Asia
What physical feature did most early civilizations live around?
What is a river
The system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services.
What is an economy
Located in Southern Turkey, the largest and best preserved neolithic village in the world.
What is Catalhoyuk
What were some of the costs of shifting to an agricultural society?
What is
Planting and Herding took a long time
Farming was uncertain
Farming was dangerous
What were some of the benefits of shifting to an agricultural society?
What is
Produced more food and required less land
More people were able to build permanent homes and villages
Provided new sources of material