Chapter 2-3: Beginnings of Agriculture

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Chapter 2-3 Beginnings of Agriculture

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3 Eras ofThe Stone Ages
Instructions For the Paleolithic Era and
Mesolithic Era, answer the following 1.List the
type of tools they used in the era. 2. Explain
the type society represented in the era. 3. Where
did the people live in this era?
Paleolithic Era Nomadic 1. 2. 3.
Neolithic Era Permanent Settlement 1. 2. 3.
Mesolithic Era Nomadic 1. 2. 3.
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Beginnings of Agriculture

• The Big Idea
• The development of agriculture brought great
  changes to human society.
• Main Ideas
• The first farmers learned to grow plants and
  raise animals in the Stone Age.
• Farming changed societies and the way people
  lived.

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Main Idea 1The first farmers learned to grow
plants and raise animals in the Stone Age.
After the Middle Stone Age came a period of time
that scientists call the Neolithic Era, or New
Stone Age.
People learned how to make plants more useful
through a process called domestication.
Farmers also began learning how to use animals
for their own benefit.
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New Stone Age

• Began as early as 10,000 years ago, in Southwest
  Asia
• People learned how to polish stones, make fire,
  and produce food.
• Ended 5,000 years ago in Egypt and Southwest
  Asia, when toolmakers began using metal

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Domestication

• Process of changing plants or animals to make
  them more useful to humans
• People learned they could plant seeds and grow
  their own crops.
• People learned to plant the biggest and sweetest
  crops for better yields.
• The domestication of plants led to the
  development of agriculture, or farming.

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New Stone Age Tools/Weapons
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1. Which animals were domesticated in Asia?
2. Where was corn first domesticated?
3. The early humans set up their permanent
   settlements near _________________.

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Animals

• Hunters didnt need to follow wild animals once
  they learned how to keep and use animals.
• Sheep and goats were used for milk, food, and
  wool.
• Larger animals were used to help with farming.
• Learning to use animals to help with farming
  increased peoples chances of surviving.

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Main Idea 2Farming changed societies and the
way people lived.
More certain survival
People could focus on activities other than
finding food.
Domestication of plants and animals led to the
use of fibers to make clothes.
Domestication
Domestication led to the need to stay in one
place. Farming communities grew into towns.
Permanent settlements
Megaliths (huge stones used as monuments) were
used to perform religious ceremonies. They may
have believed in gods/goddesses associated with
the four elements---air, water, fire, and earth.
Some scholars believed they may have prayed to
their ancestors.
Religion
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How did farmers get water to their fields?
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Stonehenge (Southern England)Megalith
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Now Go Back and Finish your Bell Work Chart
Instructions For the Paleolithic Era and
Mesolithic Era, answer the following 1.List the
type of tools they used in the era. 2. Explain
the type society represented in the era. 3. Where
did the people live in this era?
Neolithic Era 1. 2. 3.
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RemindersDue Tomorrow 9-6

• Story Board
• Should be completed in your journal
• Unit 1 Test
• Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
• Worth 100 points