A New Way of Life
This change happened when humans began growing plants and raising animals for food
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This technology involves making and using metals
What is metallurgy?
Compared with hunter-foragers, early farmers often had a less varied diet
What is poorer nutrition?
Small Paleolithic groups were often based on these family relationships.
What is kinship?
This important early crop spread from a small area of the Middle East to many parts of the world
What is wheat/grain?
People who stayed in one place instead of moving from place to place were part of these societies.
What are sedentary societies?
Farmers used new tools to make growing and preparing food easier.
What are improved tools?
Living close together with domesticated animals made these spread more easily.
What are diseases?
Paleolithic societies were generally more ________, meaning there were fewer large differences in wealth and power.
What is egalitarian?
Farmers had to remove plants that competed with their crops.
What is weeding?
An abundance of food due to the Agricultural Revolution
What is food surplus?
New technology helped people improve farming, cooking, and this activity that involved making cloth.
What is weaving?
Farmers often depended on only a few types of crops. This made them more likely to suffer from this problem if crops failed.
What is starvation?
The growth of farming societies helped create differences in wealth and ________.
What is social status?
Farmers built these systems to bring water to their crops.
What are irrigation systems?
Settled farming societies helped lead to the first ________.
What are civilizations?
When fewer people were needed to farm, they could work at other jobs. This is called ________.
What is specialization of labor?
Cereal grains often provided fewer of these than a varied hunter-forager diet.
What are vitamins and minerals?
Specialized jobs helped create a small group of people with greater wealth and power. These people are often called ________.
What are elites?
Instead of humans simply controlling plants, some historians argue that plants like wheat changed human behavior. This idea is called ________.
What is “plants domesticated humans”?
Why did farming make it possible for people to settle in one place?
What is farming provided a steady food supply?
Give one way specialization of labor helped society develop.
What is it allowed people to become artisans, scribes, or other skilled workers?
Name one way the Neolithic Revolution may have made life harder for many people.
What is worse nutrition, more disease, greater risk of starvation, or social inequality?
How could farming lead to greater inequality?
What is some people gained more land, wealth, or power than others?
Why might someone argue that wheat “domesticated” humans?
What is humans changed their lives to care for wheat by clearing land, weeding, building irrigation, and working hard to grow it?