Definitions
The age when people began to farm and produce their own food.
What is the Neolithic Age?
This is the old stone age, which began about 2 million years ago.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Instead of gathering wild plants, people discovered that they could plant these.
What are seeds and harvest crops?
This means "limited time."
What is temporary?
Section 4: This village is now known as present-day Israel.
What is Jericho?
This has an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil.
What is the fertile crescent?
Early hominins often took shelter in ___________.
What are caves?
When animals are raised to be useful to human needs.
What is domesticate?
One who moves from place to place with no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
What is efficient?
The business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
What is agriculture?
These were the two towns people built during the Neolithic Age.
What is Jericho and Catal Hoyuk?
Goats and cattle provide this for humans.
What is milk?
During the Neolithic Age, homes were often built in this shape.
What is rectangular?
Section 4: These men worked with stone axes and knife blades.
What is a toolmaker?
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is domesticate?
The Fertile Crescent is east of this major sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
When humans started growing crops and domesticating animals, this became known as ...
What is agriculture?
People climbed these, in order to reach the openings and enter their house.
What is a ladder?
Section 5: These are two types of cloth used for their natural fibers.
What are wool and linen?
Something that can be used to fulfill a need.
What is a resource?
Identify at least one way people in the Neolithic Age improved upon their standard of living.
What is building permanent shelters, forming larger communities, made better tools and clothing.
What are cave paintings?
Houses often provided this, in order to make life more comfortable.
What is protection from harsh weather and wild animals.
What are pottery and baskets?