Vocabulary
Nomads
People who move around from place to place instead of settling in one location
What did early humans often have to follow around to survive
Animals
What invention started the Neolithic Revolution?
Farming!
Why did people begin to build cities?
They no longer had to move around to find food, and they had more food so the population grew bigger.
What did humans develop to explain nature, life, and events they did not understand?
Religion
People who survived by hunting animals and gathering plants
Hunter-Gatherers
Name one major challenge early humans faced during the Ice Age
Starvation, lack of shelter, extreme cold, etc.
How did the lives of early humans change once they started farming?
More food, started remaining in one place, building towns and cities, etc.
What system helped farmers bring water to their crops?
Irrigation
What system was invented to keep record of taxes and communicate information?
Writing
The long period of extreme cols where most of the earth was covered by Ice
Ice Age
Why couldn't hunter-gatherers build permanent homes
They had to move around constantly to find food
Why did farming allow human populations to grow?
More food!
What happened when people started owning land and goods?
People started fighting over it!
Why was writing so important for early humans?
It helped keep record, and people started writing down their histories
Culture
The shared beliefs, traditions, language, and customs of a group of people
How did the Ice Age make human life difficult?
Cold temperatures, unable to farm, less food
Explain one way farming change human society
Towns/cities formed, populations grew bigger, etc.
Why did disease spread more easily in cities?
People lived close together, and they did not know how to stop the spread of germs.
Who was typically allowed to learn how to write in early cities?
The rich
Adaptation
Changing behavior or tools to survive in a new environment
Describe the daily life of Hunter-Gatherers in one word
Hard, difficult, dangerous, unpredictable, etc.
What change on Earth allowed people to start farming?
The temperature got warmer
Name one positive and one negative of living in cities for early humans
Positive: More food, jobs, culture, etc.
Negative: Disease, conflict, etc.
What was the name of the main character nomad in the movie?
Ookee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!