Creating a Stable Food Supply
Early farmers learned that planting seeds could help provide this important benefit.
What is a stable food supply?
Instead of temporary camps, Neolithic people began building these long-lasting homes.
What are permanent shelters?
A group of people living together in one area is called this.
What is a community?
Once farming created extra food, people could begin specializing in different kinds of this.
What is work/jobs/labor?
People traded because no village could produce everything it this.
What is needed?
This development allowed people to stop moving constantly in search of food.
What is farming/agriculture?
Early houses were often made from straw/reeds bricks, stone, or this natural building material .
What is mud bricks
Communities needed rules and leaders mainly to keep this.
What is order/peace?
A person who makes tools and weapons out of metal is called this.
What is a metalworker/blacksmith?
Trading goods without money is called this system.
What is barter/bartering?
People in the Neolithic Age domesticated animals mainly for these two purposes.
People in the Neolithic Age domesticated animals mainly for these two purposes.
Living in permanent shelters helped protect people from weather and these dangerous living things.
What are wild animals?
As villages grew larger, people began dividing work and sharing these responsibilities.
What are community jobs/tasks?
People who made pottery were important because pottery stored food, water, and these harvested plants.
What are crops/grain?
Early traders often exchanged extra crops for tools, pottery, or this valuable material used for weapons and jewelry.
What is metal?
Farmers discovered that rivers flooding left behind this rich soil for crops.
What is silt?
Because people stayed in one place, villages needed places to store this important resource.
What is extra food/surplus food?
Communities often formed near rivers because rivers provided water, transportation, and this important farming need.
What is fertile soil?
Job specialization improved villages because people became more skilled at certain types of this.
What is work/crafts?
Trade helped spread not only goods, but also new ideas, skills, and these cultural practices.
What are traditions/customs?
This major change from hunting and gathering to farming is called the __________ Revolution.
What is the Neolithic/Agriculture Revolution?
Permanent shelters changed family life because several generations often lived together in these organized settlements.
What are villages/communities?
Historians believe organized communities were important because they allowed civilizations to develop these three things: government, religion, and __________.
What is social structure/order?
This economic idea occurs when different people focus on different kinds of work to help a community survive.
What is specialization/division of labor?
Long-distance trade routes helped connect different communities and eventually led to the growth of these larger societies.
What are civilizations/cities?