Early Revolutions

Question 1

What are pastoral nomads?

Answer 1

A person who domesticates animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory route to keep the food source steady.

Question 2

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

Answer 2

When nomadic people began to set up farms and domesticated animals to form mini villages.

Question 3

What impact did the creation of agriculture have on early societies?

Answer 3

Because of the creation agriculture early humans were able to establish civilizations and complex cultures.

Question 4

In what ways might different methods of food production (rice farming and wheat farming) have created different values and ways of life?

Answer 4

Rice farming would have established a more unified culture, because of the team effort used to farm rice; and wheat would have established a more individualized type of culture because wheat only takes one person.

Question 5

What is agriculture?

Answer 5

The shift from hunting animals for food to domesticating animals and growing food.