VOCABULARY
A person who moves frequently to follow herds of animals and new plants
What is a nomad?
How people fed themselves in this era.
What is hunting & gathering?
Rather than hunt and gather, this is what Neo people did
Planted seeds and used animals for meat & labor
The big change in Neolithic lives that kicked off a revolution
What is farming or agriculture?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! This is the Neolithic town you studied
What is Catalhoyuk?
Raising animals for human use
What is domestication?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Two disadvantages of hunting & gathering
Possible answers
What is dangerous animals, poor shelter, moving around frequently
3 main uses of domesticated animals during the Agricultural Era.
What is for milk, meat, and labor?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Agriculture gave Neo people control over something very important in their lives. Stability of this led to surpluses!
What is their food supply?
These are animals that were used in ritual feasts in this Neolithic town.
What are wild bulls?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! The terms for "ancient stone age" and "new stone age," respectively.
What is "paleolithic" and "neolithic"?
The types of shelters Paleo people used
What are caves and tents?
Two disadvantages of living in a Neolithic village
What is more poor sanitation/disease, increased conflict, social classes?
Building permanent shelters led to these new ways of cooking and storing food
What is storing food and having cooking pits in the floors?
They traded to get this material to create beautiful mirrors
Obsidian
When you plant crops and raise animals.
Agriculture
What is in search of food?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! These are some of the SPECIALIZED jobs in a typical Neo town
What are basket weaving, toolmaking, and trading?
This big change allowed Neo people to get resources they lacked
What is trade?
Decorative pottery found in the archaeological dig shows us that these people appreciated what?
What is beauty and craftsmanship?
An area that featured soil that was very good for crops, resulting in a heavy settlement pattern.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The most important job in the lives of Paleo people
What is finding food for survival?
When communities started doing this, it helped them complete tasks faster and more efficiently
What is division of labor or job specialization?
This helped spread knowledge and ideas between groups of people in different geographic areas
What is trade?
Three things you learned about the culture of this town
What is they had art, they had burial rituals, they cared for one another, they traded, they used new cooking technology, they had gods they worshipped . . .