6th - SS Chapter 2 Study Guide Flashcards
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What was one of the best explanations for how plants became domesticated?
That climate change brought about better growing conditions.
What did hunters and gatherers own?
Only what they could carry
When early people first began to farm, what did they use to build their houses?
Mud and straw
What is defined as information about goods and services and their production?
A society’s economy
What was the economy of early villages and cities mainly based on?
Farming
What did people need to produce a food surplus?
Natural resources as well as tools and labor
Why did early civilizations appear in river valleys?
Because these areas were near rivers and fertile soil
What first enabled people to start living in settle communities?
When they domesticated plants and animals
Why did early cities need more government than farming villages?
Because the growing population needed more management
Name one benefit of the domestication of animals.
Raising sheep to make wool
What do you need to create a food source?
Fertile soil, fresh water and seeds
What were people able to do with the development of farming?
To specialize or spend more time doing one job.
When early farmers grew more food than they needed to feed themselves, what did they have?
A surplus
Why did early people begin to domesticate animals?
They change animal behavior so that they could be more useful to humans.
What is the system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services called?
Economy
Early civilizations had what which was a set of beliefs about supernatural powers or beings that created and ruled the world?
Established religion
What is a complex society that has cities, organized government, and skilled workers?
Civilization
With the development of farming, people could spend most of their time doing one job?
Specializing
Why was the location of early civilizations good for trade as well as farming?
Because it was easier to move goods and people along water systems
