Era 2 Vocabulary
1. Paleolithic: ____Old__ Stone Age (____hunter____/gatherer society)
2. Neolithic: ___New___ Stone Age (birth of ___farming___) Neolithic Song
3. surplus: ____extra___ or an abundance Surplus examples
4. domestication: taming of ___animals_____ Why did humans domesticate animals?
5. agriculture: ____farming____ Birth of Farming
6. Fertile Crescent: rich food growing area where ____earliest___ civilization grew
7. irrigation: a system to get ___water__ to the crops How did the Mesopotamians irrigate?
8. civilization: a society with a ___written__ language, government, surplus, and a division of labor
9. specialization: division of __labor__, different people have different __jobs_
10. Mesopotamia: the land between the __rivers__