Paleolithic and Neolithic Life
The period also called the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Neolithic people traded to get this.
What are resources they lacked?
The meaning of “Mesopotamia.”
What is “land between the rivers”?
Building these helped control river flooding.
What are levees or canals?
A self-governing city that also controls nearby villages.
What is a city-state?
This major change during the Neolithic Revolution allowed people to settle in one place.
What is farming and domesticating animals?
Name one material commonly traded by Neolithic people.
What is flint or obsidian?
The two rivers that were most important to Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Supplying land with water through canals and levees is called this.
What is irrigation?
A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home.
What is a nomad?
People moved from place to place hunting and gathering. What are they called?
What is a nomad?
True or False: Neolithic people never traded with other communities.
What is False?
This region had rich soil and curved like a crescent moon.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
How did irrigation help the people of Mesopotamia?
It directed water to their crops and prevented flooding.
The fertile area in Southwest Asia ideal for early farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Why did Neolithic communities begin to settle permanently?
Because farming required staying near their crops.
How did trade benefit Neolithic communities?
It allowed them to gain resources and form social connections.
Name one challenge Mesopotamians faced because of their geography.
Flooding or dry soil
Why was silt a problem for early farmers?
It clogged the irrigation canals.
The period before farming was invented, when humans survived by hunting and gathering.
What is the Paleolithic Age?