Sedentarization

Question 1

What is a process?

Answer 1

When a change occurs in several steps over a period (usually long) period of time. It often ends in “(a)Tion”. Ex. Sedentarization, diversification, evolution, etc. Adolescence is an example too.

Question 2

For the process of sedentarizaton: It went from Palaeolithic to…

Answer 2

Neolithic

Question 3

For the process of sedentarizaton: It went from Nomadic to…

Answer 3

Sedentary

Question 4

For the process of sedentarizaton: It went from hunting, fishing, foraging to…

Answer 4

Agriculture

Question 5

Does Palaeolithic or Neolithic period come first?

Answer 5

Palaeolithic

Question 6

In which period were homosapiens developed?

Answer 6

Palaeolithic period

Question 7

Fill in the blank: The palaeolithic people lived, travelled and collected resources in ______ ______.

Answer 7

Small groups

Question 8

What did the resources depend on? (3 answers)

Answer 8

Season, plant life cycle, and migration patterns

Question 9

Fill in the blank: Palaeolithic people had to have ____ ____ to be able to move with homes easily (if they’re portable). ____ is one example.

Answer 9

Temporary dwellings

Tipi

Question 10

Humans had to adapt to the environmental conditions according to what?

Answer 10

Weather and availability of resources .

Question 11

Why were the palaeolithic people always on the move?

Answer 11

For food and safety

Question 12

From what materials were tools made from?

Answer 12

Wood, bone, and stone

Question 13

T or F: The palaeolithic people knew how to start and control a fire. If yes, how did it benefit them?

Answer 13

True, gave them protection and heat

Question 14

During what period was language developed, Neolithic or palaeolithic period?

Answer 14

Palaeolithic

Question 15

Fill in the blank: The palaeolithic period was ____ and ____.

Answer 15

Nomadic and unstable

Question 16

Fill i the blank: The Fertile Crescent is where people transitioned from a ____ to ____ lifestyle.

Answer 16

Nomadic to sedentary

Question 17

What are the four main features of the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 17

1- Fertile soil (many intervals, nutrients, and its moist —> from the water sources from…)
2- …The 2 major rivers: Tigris and Euphrates
3- Mild climate
4- Food is available and the conditions in which to grow it (agriculture develops).

Question 18

Why is the Fertile Crescent the birthplace of civilization?

Answer 18

Due to the 4 main features.

Question 19

Where is the Fertile Crescent located?

Answer 19

In the Middle East between Africa and Asia.

Question 20

The two major rivers on the Fertile Crescent: Tigris and Euphrates… which is located on the top and which is on the bottom?

Answer 20

Tigris- top

Euphrates- bottom

Question 21

What years did the Neolithic Tim period take place?

Answer 21

10,000 BCE- 3500 BCE

Question 22

Why was climate change occurring in the Neolithic period?

Answer 22

Due to the end of the ice age. (Mild temperatures—> melted ice—> rain = bodies of water => fertile soil

Question 23

What happens to some animals so they can adapt to the environment? (3 answers)

Answer 23

• go north
• die (ex. Wooly Mammoth)
• arrive (typically small animals)

Question 24

What are some animals attracted to in a new environment? (4 answers)

Answer 24

Climate, water, fish, and organisms

Question 25

Why did we experiment with the domestication of animals?

Answer 25

To keep, train them, livestock

Question 26

What was a key discovery in the Neolithic period? (3)

Answer 26

- Seeds grow into plants - control plant production - start to experiment with crop growing

Question 27

What does domestication and growing of plants lead to?

Answer 27

A controlled, more stable lifestyle

Question 28

Fill in the blank: A creation of a sedentary lifestyle requires ____ ____ in the Neolithic era.

Answer 28

Settling permanently

Question 29

Why was bone used to create tools?

Answer 29

For polishing and making sharper metal

Question 30

When did the palaeolithic period start and end?

Answer 30

2,500,000 BCE -10,000 BCE

Question 31

# Fill in the blanks: Paleolithic period had… 1) Appearance of the first _____. 2) Development of ____. 3) Mastery of ____. 4) Production of the first ____.

Answer 31

1- humans 2-languages 3-fire 4-tools

Question 32

Paleolithic way of life: Fill in the blank: Humans were ____ (on the move)

Answer 32

Nomadic

Question 33

Paleolithic subsistence activities: Fill in the blank: Humans lived by ____, ____, and ____.

Answer 33

Hunting, fishing, and foraging (gathering/searching)

Question 34

Paleolithic dwellings: Fill in the blank: Temporary such as: ____, ____, and caves.

Answer 34

Tents, huts

Question 35

What were nomadic people known as?

Answer 35

Nomads

Question 36

What does homo and sapien mean?

Answer 36

Homo: human Sapien: intelligent

Question 37

What did the food available vary to?

Answer 37

Seasons and territories where hunter-gathers lived

Question 38

Why were humans of the palaeolithic era not always able to hunt and forage in one place?

Answer 38

They moved around depending on the resources available in the territory or if they stayed in the same place, resources will become scarce

Question 39

What were the effects of agriculture

Answer 39

-Food: surplus amount of food, and there was enough to eat when harvests were poor -Food and sedentary life: Women had more children =significant population growth

Question 40

What is the division of labour? What what are the 2 categories?

Answer 40

Since there was enough food for everyone, it wasn’t nessecary for everyone to work in the fields. Jobs were farmers: food production (crops and livestock farming) and artisans: production of objects (pots, tools, clothing, etc)

Question 41

What were the types of craft productions? (4)

Answer 41

Pottery, basket weaving, weaving, metallurgy

Question 42

What are example(s) of pottery and what’s it used for?

Answer 42

Fired clay pots and vases used for storage and cooking

Question 43

What are example(s) of basket weaving and what’s it used for?

Answer 43

Baskets and woven objects used for storage and transport

Question 44

What are example(s) of weaving and what’s it used for?

Answer 44

Fabrics used for production of clothing and other objects

Question 45

What are example(s) of metallurgy and what’s it used for?

Answer 45

Metal for tool and weapons used of hunting, agricultural work, clearing land of trees, defence

Question 46

What did the division of labor lead to? Give examples.

Answer 46

Trading/bartering. Farmers provided food to artisans in exchange for the items artisans produced . Through barter, farmers could acquire better farming tools, and artisans received food to ensure their family’s survival.

Question 47

Explain how barter emerged in the Neolithic period using a artisans perspective. (3)

Answer 47

1. Food surpluses led to a division of labour 2. Artisans did not produce food, but only objects 3. Artisans had to exchange the objects they made to get food, in order to survive.

Question 48

What caused the division of labour in the Neolithic period?

Answer 48

Because there was agricultural surpluses

Question 49

What is social hierarchy?

Answer 49

Classification of groups of people who make up a society, ranging from the most to the least powerful.

Question 50

What is power (in terms of societies)?

Answer 50

Particular authority or influence attributed to individuals.

Question 51

What are the types of relationships?

Answer 51

Family, friendly, professional, commercial

Question 52

What are the 3 categories (sectors of economic activity) in the division of labour?

Answer 52

Primary, secondary, tertiary