Words we know
cloth or frabric
TEXTILES
to help grow also means to .....
cultivate
Having a SURPLUS of food meant that people needed to _________________
store it!
The first permanent settlements were formed in _____________ also known as the _______ Crescent.
Mesopotamia.... Fertile
If you stay in a place for a long time that place is your ___________ home?
permanent
having an extra amount of something.. If you had a ________ of grains you would have to store them.
surplus
What kind of settlements did humans began to stay in?
Temporary or Permanent? Explain your answer.
Permanent because they had a surplus of food and did not need to travel anymore.
Where would wild grains grow in Mesopotamia?
near the rivers.
demand by two groups for a resource short in supply
Competition
Early humans may have bartered things like obsidian for ivory.
BARTER means ...
to trade without using money
People switched from _______ lifestyles to ____________ lifestyles
nomadic to agricultural
hunter-gatherer to farming
hunting to planting crops
What caused early humans to start growing crops?
They dropped seeds in places they returned to the year before.
This was an accident and once they saw crops growing they began to do this intentionally.
Plant life found in a particular area
Vegetation
early humans domesticated plants and animals..
DOMESTICATE means?
to tame and use for Agricultural or other purposes.
what could you have of you domesticated an animal like a cow?
food.. milk.. and labor (labor means work, like a job)
Which was tamed first?
Animals or plants?
Plants.. then animals
includes roads, bridges, water, and public transportation
Infrastructure
to develop a specific set of skills for a single purpose...
use the word in a sentence
Early humans SPECIALIZED in pottery.
specializing in different tasks like art
In what period did large settlements and architecture develop?
Paleolithic or Neolithic?
Neolithic