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A process of controlling and adapting wild animals and plants for human use (food, clothing, or muscle power).
domestication
True or False: A nomad is a person who moves from place to place to survive.
True
True or False: During the most recent Ice Age, the water level of hte oceans was lowered which exposed a land bridge from Asia to North America.
True
The practice of mining and working metals (often by heating them) to create tools and other goods.
Metallurgy
What was the most important and long-lasting effect that the Agricultural Revolution had on people’s lives?
Population grew at a faster rate and people settled into communities
Communities of people who do not maintain a permanent settlement and travel with their herds in search of fresh food and water.
Nomads
A type of work that requires skills and knowledge that are not common among all people.
Specialization
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the Earth were called the ________?
Ice Ages
The large time period known as the “Old Stone Age”; It began c. 2.5 billion years ago.
Paleolithic Era
True or False: Humans did not build permanent settlements and remained nomadic during the New Stone Age.
False
Which of the following is NOT an advancement of the Paleolithic Era?
grew our own food
As food became more abundant, fewer people were needed in the fields. As a result, some people…
Became artisans (skilled workers)
Taming of animals for use by humans is called ________?
Domestication
To take steps to grow something or improve its growth, especially crops.
Cultivation
Because the conditions for farming were good, the first civilizations arose…
In river valleys
The time period known as the “New Stone Age”; it began c. 12,000 years ago.
Neolithic Era
