CHAPTER ONE

PEOPLE OF THE STONE AGE

Clans: groups of related ______________ who band together in order to survive.

People united in clans with no more that ________ people living and working together.

Migration: __________from one place to the next.

Tundra: large, treeless _________ in Arctic regions.

Culture: a unique way of ______ that sets a group apart from others.

Artifacts: ___________made by early people.

Division of labor: different members of the _________ did different tasks based on their abilities and the clan=s needs. Must have 5-100 members to develop.

Role: a part that each ___________ member played to help society.

Domesticate: to control ____________ for people=s use.

Agriculture development meant the people didn=t have to depend on ________ plants to survive. Some people could stay in _____-round villages.

The _________ may have been the first animal domesticated to help with hunting.

Livestock: ________________ animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs.

Nomad: someone who moves from _________ to place with their herds of _______ to find pasture and water.

Advantages of farming:

reliable food supply, increased _________ production, longer ________, and development of new food.

Disadvantages of farming:

necessity of providing ______ for people and for animals, the possibility of losses from crop __________, increased likelihood of ___________, and damage to the environment.

Jericho was a walled _______________ near the Jordan river.

Drywalling: system of building by using _____________ without mortar or cement.

Most favorable place to grow crops and raise livestock was in a ____________valley.

Maize: _______

Agriculture in the Tigris and _________________ river valley was based on growing wheat and ___________.