the neolithic revolution Flashcards
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What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The changes in how people source food, live socially and articulate beliefs.
What does agriculture involve?
Intensification and control of food production.
What significant transformation occurred at the end of the ice age?
Temperatures increased, resulting in melting ice, rising sea levels, and the expansion of plant and animal species.
What geological time period is referred to as BP?
Geological time.
What does BCE refer to in the context of this text?
The last 10,000 years.
What began 11,600 BP?
The Holocene interglacial period.
What was the last glacial maximum?
21,000 BP.
What does the term ‘younger dryas’ refer to?
Dramatic, brief cooling between c. 10,800-9600 BCE.
What significant climatic stabilizing event occurred around 9,600 BCE?
The start of the Holocene.
How do we know about the climatic changes during this period?
From preserved ice cores taken in Greenland and Antarctica.
What happened to the earth’s temperature around 18,000 BCE?
It started warming up.
What was the temperature situation by 13,000 BCE?
Temperature had reached levels similar to today.
What animals went extinct after the end of the ice age?
Mammoths and woolly rhinos.
What geographic features provided shelter for early humans in Southeast Asia?
Taurus and Zagros mountains.
Which rivers were fed by snow melt from the mountains in Southeast Asia?
The Tigris and the Euphrates.
What is the Fertile Crescent known for?
Well-watered foothills and lowland plains, home to some of the first farmers.
What is the significance of the Levantine Corridor?
It formed a channel between Africa and Eurasia allowing migration of plants and animals.
What are ‘founder species’?
Organic or naturally occurring species in the wild that are chosen by humans in early domestication.
What natural range existed around 9,000 BCE in the ancient Near East?
Wheat, barley, sheep, goat, cattle, pigs.
Fill in the blank: The _______ provided connections with the resources of the Anatolian highlands and the central plateau.
foothills of the Taurus range
True or False: The climatic changes after the ice age allowed humans to adapt and take advantage of a changing environment.
True
