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| 3385521910 | Date of Neolithic Revolution | c8,000 BCE | 0 | |
| 3385522684 | Why would the Neolithic Revolution be called the Neolithic transition? | It took hundreds / thousands of years to fully diffuse / be practiced | 1 | |
| 3385524913 | Who first discovered agriculture? | Women | 2 | |
| 3385526011 | The first method of farming | slash-and-burn agriculture | 3 | |
| 3385526388 | Define slash-and-burn agriculture | Slashing bark and burning trees to ground | 4 | |
| 3385526834 | Effects of slash-and-burn agriculture on soil | Initially very fertile soil, became infertile after a few years. | 5 | |
| 3385529595 | Effects of slash-and-burn agriculture on spread of agriculture | Diffused agriculture as people had to migrate every so often due to infertile soil | 6 | |
| 3385530504 | The second great discovery of the Neolithic Era | Animal breeding | 7 | |
| 3385531624 | What two things allowed humans to be stationary | Breeding and farming | 8 | |
| 3385532291 | What determined the crops being domesticated? | Climate and type of plants present | 9 | |
| 3385536851 | Two examples of grains | Wheat and barley | 10 | |
| 3385537219 | What was first cultivated in Mesopotamia | Grains: wheat and barley | 11 | |
| 3385538193 | What was first cultivated in East Asia along the Yangzi River and Huang He rivers? | Rice and soybeans | 12 | |
| 3385539586 | What was first cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa? | Yams and sorghum | 13 | |
| 3385540625 | Sorghum |  | 14 | |
| 3385541376 | What was first cultivated in Southeast Asia | taro and bananas | 15 | |
| 3385542282 | What was first cultivated in the Americas | maize, beans, and potatoes | 16 | |
| 3385545402 | Effects of agriculture in regards to population | Population growth at an exponential rate | 17 | |
| 3385546420 | Population - 10,000 BCE | 4 million | 18 | |
| 3385866023 | Population - 5,000 BCE | 5 million | 19 | |
| 3385866755 | Population - 3,000 BCE | 14 million | 20 | |
| 3385867735 | Population - 2,000 BCE | 27 million | 21 | |
| 3385868258 | Population - 1,000 BCE | 50 million | 22 | |
| 3385868845 | Population - 500 BCE | 100 million | 23 | |
| 3386715259 | What enabled food surpluses? | Creation of permanent villages, tools. | 24 | |
| 3386715932 | What did food surpluses enable? | Job specialization | 25 | |
| 3386717244 | What enabled the creation of a wealthier class? | Land ownership | 26 | |
| 3386721623 | What did Neolithic peoples study in regards to the changes of the season? | Sun, moon, and stars | 27 | |
| 3386723747 | The main religious goal of neolithic peoples | Ensure fertility (land and people) | 28 | |
| 3386729404 | What did religious beliefs capitalize on? | Life cycle of birth, growth, death, and regenerated life | 29 | |
| 3386733763 | Three main craft industries | Pottery, metallurgy, and textiles | 30 | |
| 3386734004 | Earliest metal used | Copper | 31 | |
| 3386735721 | First functions of copper | Jewelry and simple tools | 32 | |
| 3386736552 | What was copper the foundation of? | Bronze and iron | 33 | |
| 3386737408 | Who created bronze? When? | Mesopotamian metalworkers in c3200 BCE | 34 | |
| 3386737932 | Composition of bronze | Copper and tin | 35 | |
| 3386738557 | Use of bronze | Agriculture and weaponry | 36 | |
| 3386764393 | How common is copper? | Relatively common | 37 | |
| 3386765773 | How common is tin? | Rare | 38 | |
| 3386768078 | When were iron tools and weapons first developed? | c1300 BCE | 39 | |
| 3386769121 | What happens when carbon is added to iron tools? | It becomes steel - much stronger, more durable | 40 | |
| 3386772655 | Societal effects of iron | Metal became more affordable among lower class which resulted in changes of warfare and politics (in Greece particularly). | 41 | |
| 3386777516 | Diffusion routes of metalworking | From Mesopotamia to Mediterranean, into Africa, and across Asia | 42 | |
| 3386784359 | Origin of wheel | Unknown | 43 | |
| 3386785082 | When was the wheel invented? | c3200 BCE | 44 | |
| 3386785660 | Use of wheels among Sumerians | wheeled carts | 45 | |
| 3386787948 | Describe rate of diffusion with wheeled carts | Very fast | 46 | |
| 3386788803 | Why would wheels have no value in America? | Absence of draft animals | 47 | |
| 3386791684 | Role of pastoralist people and diffusing technology and why did this happen? | Diffused such very quickly because they had contact with many farming communities | 48 | |
| 3386795418 | Two examples of tech diffused by pastoralist peoples | Chariots and iron blades | 49 | |
| 3386796376 | What did pastoral nomads depend on? | Their herd | 50 | |
| 3386797180 | Where did pastoral nomads live? | Central Asian steppe and grasslands | 51 | |
| 3386798097 | Describe conditions and relate them to Central Asian grass | Low rainfall but grass could live off of less water | 52 | |
| 3386798834 | Why did pastoral nomadism dominate in steppe and grasslands? | Grass was more suited for grazing than farming | 53 | |
| 3386804211 | What determined who would farm and who would be pastoral nomads? | Geography and climate | 54 | |
| 3386805407 | How did pastoralist nomads respond to difficult interactions with communities? | Developed offensive and defensive fighting tactics | 55 | |
| 3386808399 | What were the farmers after that the pastoralist nomads had? | Their animals - hence they got good at fighting | 56 | |
| 3386810748 | What did heightened military ability cause overall among the pastoralist nomads? | Future focus on fighting tactics among not only pastoralist nomads but farmers too | 57 |
