Time & Places
The first period of the Stone Age, also called the Old Stone Age, lasting from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E
What is the Paleolithic Age?
The business of farming, which includes growing crops and raising animals
What is agriculture?
The business of buying and selling or exchanging items.
What is trade?
Lasting or used for a limited time.
What is temporary?
The later part of the Stone Age, called the New Stone Age, which lasted from around 8000 to 3000 B.C.E.
What is the Neolithic Age?
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is domesticate?
Working well and producing very little waste.
What is efficiently?
Having the four-sided shape of a rectangle.
What is rectangular?
An arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia known for its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Someone who moves from place to place with no permanent home.
Who is a nomad?
To provide the means or ability to do something.
What is enabled?
A word meaning very important.
What is major?
A famous Neolithic town discovered in central Turkey.
What is Catal Hoyuk?
Something that can be used to fulfill a need.
What is a resource?
Rather than wandering as nomads, early farmers stayed in one place because training these allowed them to produce a reliable supply of meat, milk, and wool.
What is domesticating animals?