Early Agriculture Flashcards
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| 87426726 | Archaeologist | Scientists who study prehistoric and ancient peoples | 87426726 | |
| 87426727 | Bipedalism | The preference for walking erect on two limbs rather than four | 87426727 | |
| 87426728 | Primary sources | Original evidence from that time period | 87426728 | |
| 87426729 | Paleolithic Age | The Stone Age | 87426729 | |
| 87426730 | Advantages of Homo sapiens | Fore limbs, freed from walking, opposible thumbs, and development of large brain | 87426730 | |
| 87426731 | Counters the lack of strength of humans | To be able to figure out how to thrive by devising effective ways to solve the problems of survival | 87426731 | |
| 87426732 | Number of People in hunter-gather groups | 30-50 members | 87426732 | |
| 87426733 | What movements keep them? | Kept them from accumulating possessions and from developing any sense of owner ship accumulate wealth | 87426733 | |
| 87426734 | Reason for no social distinctions | they did not accumulate wealth from movement | 87426734 | |
| 87426735 | Division of labor based on | Sex | 87426735 | |
| 87426736 | What sex did what | Males hunted and females gathered | 87426736 | |
| 87426737 | The most important understanding for hunters | They had no judgment that one activity was better than the other | 87426737 | |
| 87426738 | What materials used for tools | wood, bone, and stone | 87426738 | |
| 87426739 | Evidence of their culture | Found cave paintings and burial rituals | 87426739 | |
| 87426740 | Evidence of religion | Cave paintings and ritualistic burials | 87426740 | |
| 87426741 | Time spent for survival | 3-5 hours a day | 87426741 | |
| 87426742 | Advantages of Fire | More food edible, easier storage of food, hardened wood weapons, warmed heart and soul | 87426742 | |
| 87426743 | Neolithic Revolution | The changeover from food gathering to food producing | 87426743 | |
| 87426744 | Deceiving term of Neolithic Revolution | Not a single event, but happened at different times in different parts of the world | 87426744 | |
| 87426745 | Agriculture | The deliberate tending of crops and live stocks for food and fiber | 87426745 | |
| 87426746 | Horticulture | Use of hand tools to plant seeds and cultivate crops | 87426746 | |
| 87426747 | Reason for horticulture first | It made use of animals and sped up the time, improving the process | 87426747 | |
| 87426748 | Pastoralist | The first domesticators of animals | 87426748 | |
| 87426749 | Reason agriculture grew more than horticulture | Used larger land | 87426749 | |
| 87426750 | Grains developed in Asia | Rice | 87426750 | |
| 87426751 | Grains in Americas | Corn, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, and peppers | 87426751 | |
| 87426752 | Grains in Middle East | Memmer wheat and barely | 87426752 | |
| 87426753 | First Domesticated animal and why | Dogs, they can track game | 87426753 | |
| 87426754 | Animals in SW Asia | Sheeps and goats | 87426754 | |
| 87426755 | Animals in Eurasia | Cows, horses, and pigs | 87426755 | |
| 87426756 | Animals in Andes | Llama | 87426756 | |
| 87426757 | Effects of Neolithic Revolution | People settled down. Division of labor. Social inequality. Gender inequality. The importance in surplus.Religions changes. | 87426757 | |
| 87426758 | Private Property | Claiming ownership | 87426758 | |
| 87426759 | Effect of specialization | Work was done more efficiently. | 87426759 | |
| 87426760 | Surplus | More crops than needed for farmer | 87426760 | |
| 87426761 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 87426761 | |
| 87426762 | Three industries of Revolution | Pottery, metallurgy, and textiles | 87426762 | |
| 87426763 | Reason for copper being first metal | Easily shaped | 87426763 | |
| 87426764 | Why textiles were hard to trace | Fibers don't survive easily. | 87426764 |