Assignment+6

=**__Assignment 6__**= Use your online textbook (p. 40 & p. 41) to answer these questions __**clearly**__ and __**completely**__. Please put your answers on your wiki page.

1. Read the paragraph in the //Beginnings of Agriculture// section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?). I would never starve, i would find all kinds of plants, fruit, and vegetables, i would not ever get hungry.

Read //The First Farmers// and //Plants// section on p.41 and answer these questions: 2. What is another name for the New Stone Age? Another name for the New Stone Age is Neolithic Era. 3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for? The kind of tools people made during this time are, tools like saws and drills. I think they used saws for cutting hard wood when building a house for shelter. For drills, i think they used this tool to make holes through something like a hut for air or i think they used drills for making holes through jewelry, bracelets, earrings, things like that. 4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now __**make**__ fire. Which hominid would this be? The hominid this would be is hunter-gatherers. 5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution? I think it is called a revolution because it is a big, and important change. 6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'? The definition for the word domestication is, the way of changing animals and, or plants to being much more useful to humans. 7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia? The animals that were domesticated in asia are, horse, cattle, goat, and sheep. 8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated? Corn was first domesticated in North America. 9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different from a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different. The three ways my life would be different are, i would not have to hunt animals or gather plants and vegetables because i plant crops, fruits and other plants. The second way my life would be different from a hunter and a gatherer is, i domesticate and have my own animals so i do not have to hunt. The last way my life would be different is, i have my own garden or plants, that i have to take care but gatherers and hunters just have to settle where grains grow.

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