What tool was used to turn the soil?
What tool was used to cut wheat?
What tool did women make to carry and store food?
What tool was a platform for wheat would be crushed on?
What tool crushed wheat?
Name 3 countries that surround the Fertile Crescent.
Where did Palaeolithic people begin populating the earth?
Name on of the cities that we looked at during the Neolithic period.
Why did Palaeolithic people move?
What is the main sea located near the Fertile Crescent?
Around what year did Neolithic people start living in permanent houses?
For the most part, were Neolithic people nomadic or sedentary?
Why did Neolithic people start living near fertile lands?
What type of animals would Neolithic people breed?
What is one hypothesis for why humans started farming?
How were Neolithic villages protected?
Why did the Neolithic people live near the fields where they farmed?
What was the shape of the houses in Catal Huyuk?
What type of scenes or images decorated the walls of Catal Huyuk?
How does the statue of the mother goddess show fertility?
What does division of labour mean?
How did extra food help the Neolithic people create new jobs?
What were some of the jobs that Neolithic people had besides farming and hunting?
How did more food create trade among Neolithic people?
What does 'social hierarchy' mean?
A hoe
A sickle
Basket
Grinder
Rubbing Stone
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, as well as the southeastern fringe of Turkey and the western fringes of Iran
Eastern Africa
Mallaha, Mureybet, Catal Huyuk
Followed the herds for hunting and food.
The Mediterranean Sea
8000 BCE
Sedentary
Land that was good for farming allowed them to engage in agriculture
Horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, chicken
Neolithic people saw seeds fall and create new plants - Farming happened first, then they stayed in one place
With high stone walls.
They wouldn't have to carry their food as far.
Square and rectangular
Hunting scenes - deer, boar, and bears.
Big belly means that she is pregnant.
Different jobs for different people.
More food meant that the population grew, the more people there were, the more jobs that were created.
- Basket, weave, make tools out of metal, pottery, and war
Extra food leads to people trading that food for goods.
order of society from most to least important.
