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| What is a hunter-gatherer? |
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| A person who hunts animals and gatherers plants for food, moving when food becomes scarce |
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| A person who moves from place to place is a... |
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| What is the act of moving from place to place? |
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| Why did early people move around so often? |
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| They followed animals for food, so when the animals migrated the humans followed. |
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| What is the term given to the shift from food gathering to food raising? |
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| Why was the Agricultural Revolution a turning point in human history? |
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| People now had the ability to grow their own crops. They used tools and technology to make their crop growth more productive. This allowed them to stay in one place for a longer period of time. |
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| What is one technique early people used to create land for agriculture? |
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| Slash-and-burn; the cutting down and burning of trees and plant life to make room for crops. |
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| What does it mean to domesticate? |
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| What did early humans domesticate? |
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| Animals such as goats, and sheep |
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| Any tool or idea that enhance life. |
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| What were benefits of villages? |
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| People lived and worked together. They got to settle in one area for a long period of time. |
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| What were disadvantages of living in villages? |
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| Fires and diseases spread easily. Sewage was hard to dispose of. |
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| There are many techniques for watering crops. What do we call all of these techniques? |
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