VOCABULARY
The practice of growing plants and raising animals for food.
Agriculture
The period of history that followed the Paleolithic Age.
Neolithic Age
Hunter-gatherers got much of their food by doing these two things.
Hunting and gathering
Early humans sometimes settled near these areas where salt water and fresh water met.
Estuaries
An unwritten account of events that is often passed down through generations as stories or songs.
Oral history
The raising of plants and animals to make them useful to humans.
Domestication
The major change that marked the beginning of the Neolithic Age.
Agricultural Revolution
Hunter-gatherers often moved from place to place to follow these animals.
Herds of animals
Estuaries provided salt water, fresh water, and this type of land for growing plants.
Fertile land
An artifact or writing created by someone who witnessed or lived through a historical event.
Primary source
Land that is good for growing crops.
Fertile
People began doing this instead of depending only on hunting and gathering.
Growing crops
Early farmers developed new tools that helped them do this to the soil.
Dig the soil and plant seeds
As people began farming, they developed new tools for planting these.
Seeds
An artifact or writing created after an event by someone who did not witness or live through it.
Secondary source
A person who moves from place to place instead of living in one permanent location.
Nomad
This change in climate gave people longer growing seasons and encouraged domestication.
A warmer climate
Unlike many hunter-gatherers, farmers began living in these more permanent places.
Settlements
People began taming these as part of the development of farming.
Animals
Scientists who study rocks and fossils can help historians understand this part of the past.
The environment
A person who hunts animals and gathers wild plants for food.
Hunter-gatherer
People began taming plants and animals during this major change in human history.
Agricultural Revolution
One major difference between hunter-gatherers and farmers was that farmers could grow their own food instead of depending mainly on this.
Hunting and gathering
People developed kilns to make clay pots and work with this material.
Metal
Scientists can examine detailed versions of these to study things that cannot be seen with their eyes.
X-rays