Before Domesticated Plants
How did humans first obtain food?
By hunting and gathering.
What was the first domesticated plant?
Wheat
After people start to get fields of domesticated crops what starts to happen?
The begin to settle down.
How did the rise of agriculture help with specialized work in civilizations?
It helped by getting people good at one task and then trading.
Next to what natural thing do civilizations start to pop up?
rivers.
What is the name of the period where humans traveled for there food?
Paleolithic Revolution
What is the rise of Agricultural called?
The Neolithic Revolution
True or False: Because of the surplus of food population increases?
True
How long did it take for the first civilization to develop after plants where domesticated?
4,000 years
True or False: After the first plant was domesticated humans were pretty quick to create civilizations?
False
How did humans travel before the domestication of crops?
They traveled with the food.
How long ago was the first plant domesticated?
10,000 years ago
What jobs start to come out of Agriculture?
Farmers
Calendar readers
what pros did the Neolithic revolution bring to civilizations?
Didn't have to travel for food
Brought the calendar year
What where some of the domesticated animals used for farming?
Horses, Oxen
What is one frequent problem that humans ran into before domesticated crops?
They frequently died from starvation living one meal to the next.
Where did the Neolithic Revolution Happen mainly?
The Fertile Crescent
What was also domesticated and used to help harvest crops during the neolithic Revolution?
Animals.
What is/was a con to the neolithic revolution?
war
Disease
Building Protection
How did the neolithic revolution make life easier on nomadic people?
They slowly started to grow there own food and soon didn't have to travel far to get food.
What are humans called before they settle down and live in one place?
Nomads
What is an age in which scientist believe lead to the Neolithic revolution?
The End of the Ice Age.
This water system was used to water plants?
Irrigation
What are 4 major societies that are created from agriculture?
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Chinese.
Why do scientists believe that the Ice Age help lead to the Neolithic revolution?
Entered a warming period 14,000 years ago right around the end of the ice age
Climate starts to rise