History Alive Lesson 3 Sections Intro-3

Where did the Stone Age get its name from?

• the stone tools prehistoric people made and used
• the stones prehistoric people threw at each other
• the statues prehistoric people made out of stone
•  the type of farming prehistoric people did

Historians divide the Stone Age into what two periods?

• Early Age & Middle Age
• Stone Age & Farm Age
• Paleolithic Age & Neolithic Age
• Hunting Age & Farming Age

How did the Paleolithic people get their food? 

• They roamed from place to place begging for food. 
• They roamed from place to place hunting wild animals and gathering nuts, berries, and seeds. 
• They farmed crops.
• They went to the food store in the nearest town to shop for their food. 

How did the Neolithic people get their food? 

• They roamed from place to place hunting wild animals.
• They gathered nuts and seeds from plants they found when traveling.
• They learned how to raise animals and crops for food. 
• They went to the food store in the nearest town to shop for their food. 

The shift from hunter-gatherers (food collectors) to farmers (food producers) is considered to be...

• one of the most important advances in human development
• one of the least important advances in human development
• a pretty cool advancement among historians
• a fun thing to read about in Social Studies class

What is agriculture?

• to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
• the business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
• an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
• one who moves from place to place with no permanent home

What is a nomad?

• to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
• the business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
• an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
• one who moves from place to place with no permanent home

What is the Fertile Crescent?

• to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
• the business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
• an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
• one who moves from place to place with no permanent home

What is domesticate?

• to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
• the business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
• an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
• one who moves from place to place with no permanent home

^{Gradually, hunter-gatherers became farmers.
What does gradually mean?}

• in no time
• over thousands of years
• over a couple of minutes