Paleolithic Life
These two activities were the main ways Paleolithic people found food.
What are hunting and gathering?
This major development around 8000 B.C.E. helped begin the Neolithic Age.
What is farming?
Having a dependable supply of food allowed people to do this instead of constantly moving around.
What is settle in one place?
When people began producing enough food to survive, not everyone had to spend all day finding food. This allowed people to develop different ______.
What are jobs/ specialized skills?
Unlike farmers, Paleolithic people generally did not stay in one permanent location. Explain why.
What is they moved to find food and other resources?
People began raising animals such as goats and cattle as another way to produce food. What is this called?
What is domestication?
Why did Neolithic People live in larger groups compared to earlier times?
They could grow enough food to support more people.
Why would a Neolithic village trade with another community?
What is to get resources or goods they did not have?
A person who moves from place to place rather than living permanently in one location is called this.
What is a nomad?
This area was the site of many early settlements becasue it had rich soil that was great for growing crops.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Most neolithic shelters were made of what materials?
Clay bricks mixed with stones and branches
How could dividing up jobs make a community stronger?
What is people could specialize and make useful goods and people were able to save time?
What does the prefix paleo- mean?
What is old?
What does the prefix Neo- mean?
What is new?
How did living in and building permanent shelters change the way people cooked and stored food?
They developed new ways of cooking in clay lined pots. They stored food underground.
What does a weaver create?
What are baskets?