Definitions
when agricultural output exceeds the consumption of a society
What is a surplus?
A period of time when the temperature of the Earth's surface decreases.
What is an Ice Age?
Controlled the people; government
What is family?
Controlled the people; government
What is village chief and council?
The effect of high birth rates
What is population increase?
The cultivating of land and livestock to produce crops for food and resources
What is agriculture?
Covers the land; not allowing crops to grow
What is ice?
The belief that humans, animals, and other natural objects have a spirit
What is animism?
A tool or process used to turn and prepare the soil for planting crops
In ancient agricultural societies, surplus production allowed people to settle in one place, leading to the
What is the growth of cities/villages?
A person or group of people who move from place to place in search for food and resources
What is a nomad?
When the temperature of the Earth dramatically decreases, the availability of plant food
What is decreases?
Another name for the Old Stone Age
What is Paleolithic Period?
To adapt wild plants or animals for human use, such as breeding animals for work or food and growing crops
What is domesticate?
Those who control resources and those who perform essential jobs
What is elite/upper class and working/lower class?
The state of being able to be used or obtained.
What is availability?
The most consequential (the most impactful) effect of the frigid (cold) weather, Blom argues convincingly, was to disrupt the
What is harvest?
Approximately this many years ago the Old Stone Age begain
What is 2.5?
Technologies used to make farming accurate
What is measurements and calenders
As individuals focus on these specific tasks, they often gain different levels of these three things
What is wealth, influence, and presitge?
A major change around 10,000 years ago when humans transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming and settling in one place
What is Neolithic Revolution?
The cause of panics, food riots, and social uprisings
What is climate change/Ice Age?
These marvelous works of art suggested that early humans practice religious practices and beliefs
What are cave paintings?
3 uses of animals
The existence of social classes drives the need for
What is more complex government systems?