SSLesson 3 Vocab/ Study Guide

Question 1

The business of farming; growing crops and raising animals

Answer 1

Agriculture

Question 2

A Neolithic town discovered in central Turkey

Answer 2

Catal Hoyuk

Question 3

To train a wild animal to be useful to humans

Answer 3

Domesticate

Question 4

Working well; producing very little waste

Answer 4

Efficiently

Question 5

To provide the means or ability to do something

Answer 5

Enabled

Question 6

An arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil

Answer 6

Fertile

Question 7

Very important

Answer 7

Major

Question 8

The later part of the Stone Age, called the New Stone Age,lasted from around 8000 to 3000 B.C.E.

Answer 8

Neolithic Age

Question 9

One who moves from place to place with no permanent home

Answer 9

Nomad

Question 10

The first period of the Stone Age, called the old Stone Age, from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E.

Answer 10

Paleolithic Age

Question 11

Having the shape of a rectangle

Answer 11

Rectangular

Question 12

Something that can be used to fulfill a need

Answer 12

Resource

Question 13

For a limited time

Answer 13

Temporary

Question 14

The business of buying and selling or exchanging items

Answer 14

Trade

Question 15

Name the change that began the Neolithic Age, about 8000 B.C.E.

Answer 15

Farming

Question 16

How did people in the Paleolithic Age get food their food

Answer 16

By hunting and gathering

Question 17

The Fertile Crescent was the site of many early settlements because the BLANK was good for crops

Answer 17

BLANK:Soil

Question 18

The greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to raise plants and animals was they had a BLANK.

Answer 18

BLANK:Stable food supply

Question 19

Animals that were domesticated for meat and milk were BLANK.

Answer 19

BLANK:Raised

Question 20

Archaeologists have found houses in which the doorways were built high up on the walls. The most likely reason for this is people wanted to be safe from BLANK.

Answer 20

BLANK:Harsh weather and wild animals

Question 21

Archaeologists have found decorated pottery and polished stone. This suggested that Neolithic people cared about BLANK.

Answer 21

BLANK:Beauty

Question 22

Communities allowed the Neolithic people to organize themselves to work BLANK.

Answer 22

BLANK:Efficiently

Question 23

The BLANK of jobs led to better ways of doing thinks.

Answer 23

BLANK:Specialization

Question 24

Why did the people of the Paleolithic live in temporary shelters.

Answer 24

Because they were nomads traveling from place to place

Question 25

Permanent shelters allowed them to BLANK and BLANK food.

Answer 25

BLANK:Store BLANK:Cook

Question 26

Trade allowed contract with other people which spread BLANK and BLANK throughout the world

Answer 26

BLANK:Ideas BLANK:Knowledge

Question 27

Why did Neolithic people trade

Answer 27

To get the resources they lacked