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7318225382end of the last Ice Age11,000 years ago it ended creating conditions that encouraged agriculture, such as warmer and wetter weather that increased wild plants, which then became domesticated crops.0
7318225383"broad spectrum diet"he idea that hunter and gatherers had to learn to eat both small and large animals.1
7318226958Fertile Crescentevidence shows that this place was the first to show a full Agricultural Revolution; there were large amounts of plants and animals that provided plentiful resources.2
7318226959teosintea mountain grass, also the ancestor of corn which took place in the Americas.3
7318235082diffusionspreading of ideas and techniques throughout the world without the movement of agricultural people4
7318235083Bantu migrationpeople of this language moved east and south from what is now Nigeria; they drove away Paleolithic people through absorption, killing, or diseases from animals.5
7318235084people of Australiakept the hunter-gatherer traditions and avoided the spread of agriculture.6
7318235085Banpoan ancient village in China that began 7,000 years ago which showed major technology innovation; evidence shows there was domestication of millet pigs and dogs and there were more than 200 storage pits.7
7318235142"secondary products revolution"around 4,000 B.C.E. there were new uses of domestic animals, parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa began things such as milking, harvesting wool, using manure for soil enrichment, and transportation (riding horses).8
7318235143pastoral societiessocieties than increasingly relied on animals to live, which then things such as herders, pastoralists, and nomads came to be; people relied on milk, meat, and blood of animals to survive and began riding horses around 4,000 B.C.E.9
7318235144Catalhuyuklocated in southern Turkey, this place maintained an equal and free society; there was no indication of male or female dominance. They buried dead under their houses and there were no streets dividing the housing.10
7318237594"stateless societies"societies that contained specific leaders which created things with more culture, newer crops, adapted to new environments, and seem similar to today's world.11
7318237595cheifdomsinherited positions of power which therefore introduced inequality.12
7318235049diffusion13
7318235050Bantu migration14

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