University:
High School
Course:
High School History
Academic year:

2023
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78

Pages:

2
Author:

Atticus Porter

First Agricultural Revolution 1. What is agriculture? Agriculture is farming such as plants and animals. 2. What did people do before agriculture to get food? People would hunted and gathered food. 3. How was life for hunters and gatherers? They were tiersen and had very limited food. 4. How many people today are hunters and gatherers? .005% of the world are hunters and gatherers. 5. Where can we ﬁnd hunters and gatherers in the world today? (Include the groups name and location) Great victoria Desert and India. 6. What stage of the demographic transition model is hunters and gatherers in? Stage 1 7. What happened around 8,000 B.C. that changed how humans lived? Humans started to domesticate plants and animals. 8. What is a hearth (Mr. Sinn mispronounces this as “hurth”; the correct pronunciation is “harth”, like “heart”)? A point of origin. 9. What three things happened that made the ﬁrst agricultural revolution possible? 1.The end of the last age allowed population growth 2.Human desire to live in a ﬁxed place 3.Evolution of accidental plantings to delibrate attempts to cultivate 10. 10. What originated in the following areas? Southwest Asia Barley,wheat,lentil,and olive were domesticated and diused west europe and east to central asia East Asia Rice and millet Sub-Saharan Africa Sorghum. Possibly yams, rice and millet may have been domesticated independently of the hearth in east asia. Latin America Beans,cotten,potato,maize Southwest Asia Cattle goats,pigs,sheep,and possibly dogs Central Asia horse 11. What is the Neolithic Revolution? This was when humans moved from nomadic bands to sedentary settlements. 12. What were the eects of the Neolithic Revolution? 1.Crop and animal domestication 2. Increased populations 3. Creation of complex societies 13. How did the silk road promote trade? This trade route connected the east and west amd helped diuse many ideas between dierent regions. 14. Explain how the slave trade allowed agriculture to evolve. Constant exchange for goods and people 15. Explain how colonialism impacted agriculture. Diused farming styles 16. What happens when people talk and interact with each other? (Think of diusion) They exchange ideas, food, and water.