1. Happy Tuesday!
Please write down your homework in your agenda book: vocabulary quiz on Monday! Study VOCAB CHART
THEN – Quietly discuss the following Question in your group: What evidence is there that Early Humans were capable of complex thoughts and actions?

2. Technology usage like making fire and tools Development of language
How do we know that Early Humans
were capable of complex thought?
Cave Art
Technology usage like making fire and tools
Development of language

3. Early Agriculture Guided Notes
Pages

4. Key Ideas (p. 82) : Human life changed dramatically when people learned to and to animals. Farming allowed people to settle in one place and develop
farm
domesticate
specialized skills

5. 1. During the Old Stone Age, why couldn’t people settle in one place for long? 2. Why do historians call the New Stone Age the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?
They had to follow herds of animals to hunt food.
It is called ‘new’ because people began to farm and life changed.

6. 3. Others learned to modify or change their
3. Others learned to modify or change their so that it would provide more food.
environment

7. 4. People learned to domesticate plants and animals, especially those they used for food. Domesticate means: 5. List two domesticated plants or animals:
to change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans
see chart on page 83

9. 6. Farmers invented new. in order to make farming easier
6. Farmers invented new in order to make farming easier. These were first made of stone, and eventually farmers used bronze, then .
tools
iron

10. 7. What were two costs of shifting from hunting- gathering to farming?
The Spread of Farming (p )
7. What were two costs of shifting from hunting- gathering to farming?
Planting crops/herding animals took a lot of time and energy
Farming could be unpredictable and uncertain
Farming could be dangerous

11. 8. What were two benefits of farming?
Farming produced more food and required less land
People were able to build permanent homes
Farming provided new sources of materials for clothes and shelter

12. 9. Because farmers could now stay in one place, farmers found ways to build permanent Effects of Farming Chart: What order led Hunter-Gatherers from farming to complex villages:
shelters
Everyone is involved getting food, hunting and gathering
Agricultural revolution - __________ develops, people settle in communities.
Tools and crops improve, people grow more food and build up _________.
__________ Grows larger
With more people and enough food, not everyone must be involved in farming
__________ develops. People begin working other jobs besides farming and getting food.
farming
Population
surplus
Specialization

13. 11. Agriculture also changed the way that people ________
11. Agriculture also changed the way that people ________. Domesticated animals such as sheep and yaks provided materials. 12. As crops and herds improved, the amount of __ that farmers could produce each year increased. Some families were able to raise a , or more than they needed to feed themselves.
dressed
clothing
food
surplus

14. 13. With a surplus, not everyone needed to be a farmer
13. With a surplus, not everyone needed to be a farmer. Some people could Specialization occurs when people spend most of their time working at a single job or craft. 14. List two of the new, specialized jobs:
specialize
Toolmakers, potters, weavers, metalworkers