1. Era 2 Vocabulary

2. 1. Paleolithic: ____Old__ Stone Age (____hunter____/gatherer society)

3. 2. Neolithic: ___New___ Stone Age (birth of ___farming___)
Neolithic Song

4. 3. surplus: ____extra___ or an abundance
Surplus examples

5. 4. domestication: taming of ___animals_____
Why did humans domesticate animals?

6. 5. agriculture: ____farming____
Birth of Farming

7. 6. Fertile Crescent: rich food growing area where ____earliest___ civilization grew

8. 7. irrigation: a system to get ___water__ to the crops
How did the Mesopotamians irrigate?

9. 8. civilization: a society with a ___written__ language, government, surplus, and a division of labor

10. 9. specialization: division of __labor__, different people have different __jobs_

11. 10. Mesopotamia: the land between the __rivers__