Beginnings of Farming
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- Q1How did climate change at the end of the Ice Age most likely encourage the discovery of farming?weather became warmer and wetter and better for growing plantsthe weather became more dry with frequent droughtsthe weather probably did not affect plant life muchareas of ice increased120s
- Q2Why would women be the most likely to begin the first farming?men and women fought over plants and women won the fightplants were growing in regions where only women livedit was against most religions for men to grow plantsthey gathered plants and would notice the grow and patterns of plants while men hunted120s
- Q3The best way to explain agriculture would be...taming animalsfarming and growing cropsincreasing villagesnew technology120s
- Q4What changes happened when people changed from nomadic hunting to settled farming life?new technology was neededissues and conflict between groups of people startedvillages began to growall of these120s
- Q5Which group of new tools would have the most impact on increasing crops?reeds, kiln, quernbridle, pottery, plowsmelting, bow and arrow, and wheatcanals, plow, sickle120s
- Q6When the time of humans learning to grow crops and settle into villages is called the Agricultural Revolution, the word revolution means...a time of sudden or dramatic changeto turn arounda war between two villagesa war between governments120s
- Q7Which of these were negative results of switching to a farming/village lifestyle?contact with animals and each other increased diseasesall of thesepeople became smaller and less muscularfighting and war began between villages and towns120s
- Q8Farming villages were able to keep a surplus of food. What does this mean?They had to let it rot in the fields.They had extra food and could save it.They often starved.They were not able to harvest it.120s
- Q9Often a village would have a potter, a blacksmith, shepherds, and a weaver. This list is evidence of ...division of labor or specializationagriculturetechnologydomestication120s
- Q10The map shown supports which statement?Farming on began in AsiaSome people in different areas of the world did not like to farmFarming and agriculture began in many different locations across the worldFarming started in places that had no animals to hunt120s
