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| 7241772427 | What does Neolithic Era mean? | new stone age | 0 | |
| 7241777975 | What was the difference between the tools in the Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic? | the tools in the paleolithic were chipped stone and the tools in the neolithic were polished. | 1 | |
| 7241783839 | Polished stones were found where? | Places where people relied on cultivation of foraging. | 2 | |
| 7241789082 | Neolithic Era refers to what? | early stages of agricultural society | 3 | |
| 7241793654 | The Neolithic Era was about how many years ago? | twelve thousand-six thousand | 4 | |
| 7241798604 | What caused an agricultural society to become possible? | the end of the last ice age | 5 | |
| 7241804274 | During the ice age, why couldn't an agricultural society become possible? | the earth's climate wildly fluctuated constantly | 6 | |
| 7241818889 | Agricultural society involves two main principals. What are they? | growth of plants and other food sources and domestication of animals | 7 | |
| 7241824554 | Who do scholars believe most likely began the care of plants? Why? | women, they became familiar with the life cycles of plants during the time where they were gatherers. | 8 | |
| 7241832237 | Domestication and plant growth led to what? | the formation of an agricultural economy. | 9 | |
| 7241841165 | What were some of the earliest domesticated animals and cultivated plants? When did this happen? | sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle. barley and wheat. 9000 BCE | 10 | |
| 7241853992 | What was an early method of cultivation? | Slash and burn method | 11 | |
| 7241857492 | The outcome of the slash and burn method was? | weed-free fertile land | 12 | |
| 7241862182 | How long did neolithic people spend on agriculture on average per day? | 4 hours | 13 | |
| 7241868136 | What happened when agricultural society became widely known? | the population grew immensely | 14 | |
| 7241871012 | What was the population in 3000 BCE? | 14 million | 15 | |
| 7241872133 | What was the population in 2000 BCE? | 27 million | 16 | |
| 7241874987 | What was the population in 1000 BCE? | 50 million | 17 | |
| 7241878185 | What was the population in 500 BCE? | 100 million | 18 | |
| 7241881234 | What was created after the large increase in the population? | Villages and towns | 19 | |
| 7241885481 | Because of agriculture, what was no longer necessary? | migratory life | 20 | |
| 7241888465 | What was one of the earliest villages? | Jericho | 21 | |
| 7241895559 | In Jericho, what practice was created? | trade | 22 | |
| 7241900069 | The large numbers of people in villages encouraged what? | Specialization of labor | 23 | |
| 7241908311 | What was Çatal Hüyük? | one of the best known Neolithic settlements, located in Turkey, town, center of production and trade, specialized labor. | 24 | |
| 7241920840 | What were the three most common specialized labors? | Pottery, metalworking, textile production | 25 | |
| 7241923035 | What was pottery used for? | storing dry and liquid products | 26 | |
| 7241926647 | What was metalworking used for? | creation of metal tools and jewelry, used mostly copper | 27 | |
| 7241931315 | What was textile production? | done by women, spinning fiber into thread and weaving thread into cloth. | 28 | |
| 7241936526 | What did permanent settlements allow people to do? | accumulate property and wealth | 29 | |
| 7241941734 | The ability to accumulate of property and wealth causes what? | social classes | 30 | |
| 7241949403 | The agricultural people learned the seasons based on? | positions of sun, moon, and stars | 31 | |
| 7241955886 | The understanding of seasons led to what? | development of a calendar | 32 | |
| 7241961359 | Neolithic communities worshipped what? | many gods or deities. | 33 | |
| 7241964217 | Neolithic people believed in? | life after death | 34 | |
| 7241971762 | What is the difference between cities and towns? | cities were larger and more complex and cities influenced cultural life of large regions. | 35 | |
| 7241978830 | The earliest known cities were located? | valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates River | 36 |
