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U1 CH 2
STUDY GUIDE for The Agricultural Revolution
Question | Answer |
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1. What was one effect of settling in one place? | More permanent homes/dwellings were built by humans to live in. |
2. What was one effect of the domestication of animals? | It provided reliable sources of milk, food, and labor. |
3. What 2 things developed during the Neolithic period? | -bartering and trade -large settlements |
4. What happened when farmers grew more crops than they could use in a season? | They had to find ways to store the surpluses of food. |
5. Where did the first human settlements form? | Mesopotamia; also know as the Fertile Crescent |
6. How can the changes that happened during the Neolithic period be characterized? | People transitioned from a nomadic life to forming agricultural societies. |
7. Why did early humans find crops growing in the camps they returned to year after year? | They had dropped seeds of grains and other plants the previous year. |
8. What geographic feature were wild grains most likely to grow by? | rivers |
9. As early peoples shifted from nomadic hunter-gatherers to settling in more permanent places, what happened first? | the domestication of plants and grains |