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To train or adapt an animal or plant to live in a human environment, making it more useful to humans.
What is domestication?
100
An extra amount; more than is needed.
What is surplus?
100
A widespread shortage of food that threatens death from starvation.
What is famine?
100
A surplus of food could be _________ or stored for winter months?
What is traded?
100
To get from place to place, residents in a Neolithic Farming town had to walk across these.
What are rooftops?
200
The science, art, and business of raising animals and plants to supply food for humans; farming.
What is agriculture?
200
Used to grind grain into flour for bread using a pestle and mortar.
What is a quern?
200
A complex society with a stable food supply, specialization of of labor, a government, and a highly developed culture.
What is civilization?
200
The Neolithic people began to live in _____________.
What are villages?
200
A civilization is made up of this many features or characteristics.
What is the number 5?
300
Neolithic Era is a term that comes from two Greek words meaning new and stone.
What is Neos Lithos?
300
The act of supplying dry lands with water by means of canals, ditches, pipes, and streams.
What is irrigation?
300
The Neolithic Era was named so because people used these kind of tools.
What are stone tools?
300
In time, when talking about the features of a city, power shifted from early leaders to these powerful, government leaders.
What are kings?
400
Shiny, dark glass formed when hot lava from a volcano cools quickly.
What is obsidian?
400
A sacred place where people worship.
What is a shrine?
400
This consisted of two panels, War and Peace.
What is the Standard of Ur?
400
This was the biggest Neolithic town discovered by archaeologists in the Middle East.
What is Catal Huyuk?
400
These two rivers surrounded the ancient city of Ur.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
A wild, donkey-like animal.
What is an onager?
500
Being able to provide for oneself without depending on others.
What is self-sufficient?
500
These three plants were the first evidence of domesticated plants.
What is wheat, barley, and lentils?
500
These extended from the walls and served as tables or benches during the day and as beds at night.
What are platforms?
500
Ur had a unique system that allowed records to be created.
What is writing?