Section 2: Humans Try to Control Nature

1. Section 2: Humans Try to Control Nature Reading Guide Lecture

2. Early Advance in Technology and Art 9. What occupied most time for the ancestors of early modern humans? Surviving. More advanced humans showed capacity for invention & art. Tools Needed to Survive 10. Define nomads: Highly mobile people who moved from place to place, foraging, or searching, for new sources of food. -define hunter-gatherers: Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

3. The Beginnings of Agriculture 11. Define Neolithic Revolution: Agricultural Revolution: far reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming -what discovery helped to bring about the Neolithic Revolution? Women scattered seeds perhaps accidentally. When they came back next season new crops had grown in that location. Causes of the Agricultural Revolution 12. What is considered a probable cause of the Agricultural Revolution? Changes in climate. Rising temperatures. (p.17) -How do you think that a steady food supply source changed culture? More food = more people can eat = bigger population = more workers use for work other than farming

4. Early Farming Methods 13. Describe the process of slash and burn farming. Cut & burn a field to clear it- ashes are used as fertilizer. A year or two later the farmer then moves to new land. 14. Using the 5 “W’s,” describe the Ice Man. Who: 2 German hikers find preserved man in ice What: Man found is said to be 5,000 years old- died of arrow wound Where: On the Austria/Italy border When: 1991 Why: Many artifacts such as six-foot longbow, deerskin case with 14 arrows, small flint dagger, copper ax, and medicine bag found. Insights into how this man lived.

6. Domestication of Animals 15. Define domestication: Taming of animals Villages Grow and Prosper 16. Identify the major areas of agricultural origin: Africa: Nile River Valley China- Yellow River Mexico & Central America Peru