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Hunter/Gather-Early
Mrs. Crum-Rensel's Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers
Question | Answer |
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What is a Band? | group of related families brought together for a common purpose |
What is migration? | movement from one place to the next |
Who many people made up a band? | 20 |
What did ancient people get from animals? | food, bones, hides |
Did hunter/gatherers live in permanent settlements? | No, they moved around following the food |
What are some foods they gathered? | wild fruits, nuts, roots, seeds |
What are examples of animals they hunted? | fish, turtles, birds, small rodents, oxen, woolly rhinoceroses, elephant-llike mammoths, reindeer, bison |
What did they use for hunting? | spears and knives |
What are 2 ways they hunted animals? | chased them over cliffs wrapped self in animal hide and snuck up on them |
What was the Ice Age? | long cold-weather period when huge sheets of ice covered 1/3 of the Earth |
What is a tundra? | large, treeless plain in Arctic region |
What is culture? | a way of life (example - "what we DO here at SVMS") |
What is society? | an organized group of people living and working with rules and traditions (example - SVMS is our learning society) |
What is division of labor? | different members of a group have different jobs (you do what you are good at!) |
What is a role? | part played by a person to help society (example - Ms. Schultz's ROLE is to help all kids in a different way than the regular teacher.) |
What good things did language do for society? | It let them share feelings, needs, customs, and knowledge |
People changed from _______ and ________ to being ___________. | hunters and gatherers to early farmers |
What is domesticate? | tame living things for people's use |
What is economy? | the way people get resources to meet their needs |
What is livestock? | domesticated animals, such as cattle, sheep, and pigs |
What are nomads? | people who move from palce to place with their herds of animals |
People began to grow food in ____________ (hint: some people have in their back yards) | gardens |
Once people started to grow their own food, they built small _________________. | Villages |
What animal did they tame and use for hunting? | dogs |
What is agriculture? | raising of domesticated plants and animals |
What is environment? | surroundings |
How did food production change when better tools were invented? | More food produced; it was easier to produce |
What is an advantage of agriculture? | reliable food source (they didn't have to go look for food every day) |
What is a DISadvantage of agriculture? | -crops had to be raised to feed animals -starvation and disease when drought or insects killed crops or livestock -wars over farmland -harm environment |
What is maize? | corn |
What is subsist? | survive (subsistance farmers - grew enough to survive but not a lot extra) |