Migration of Early Humans
What was the most important resource for early humans?
Water
What allowed hunter-gatherers to settle down and establish permanent settlements?
Farming
a process of focusing on and becoming an expert in one job
Job specialization
Early humans had to search for food. Because of this we call them...
hunter-gatherers
What is one way that farming changed human bodies?
Better teeth and mouth health, body size changed, farming allowed for larger populations
Irrigation
a way of supplying water to an area of land
Humans migrated out of Africa around 70,000 years ago. What continent did they enter first?
Asia
What is "niche construction"?
clearing land, planting crops, and raising animals modified the land
farming and producing crops and livestock
agriculture
Other than water and food, what other obstacles did hunter-gatherers encounter when migrating?
Mountains, oceans, deserts, dangerous animals
What was one potential downside of establishing permanent settlements?
A more sedentary (lack of movement) lifestyle
creating new ideas to help with survival
Innovation
what is one push factor and one pull factor for early human migration?
Push: bad water, no food, climate change
Pull: Good food, good water
Write a claim about how people's lives changed after the Agricultural Revolution.
Various answers
Technology
creating new tools to help with survival