Humans try to Control Nature

Main idea: The development of agriculture caused an increase in population and the

growth of a settled way of life.

QuestionWere early humans dumb?

Technological and Artistic Advances Early man made inventions and art to

survive.Old Stone Age people were Nomads=

highly mobile people who moved with the seasons and followed the food supply.

Nomads worked as hunter-gatherers= groups that depended on hunting animals and gathering plants for food.

Develop new tools to make their life easier.

The Development of Agriculture Neolithic Revolution= The change from gathering plants in the natural habitat to gathering by planting.

Starts the change of humans living in bands of 25 to 75 people to living more as a condensed family.

Slash and burn farming used to keep soil fertilized.

DomesticationDomestication is the taming of animals.

Horses, dogs, goats , pigs, chickens

Both farmers and nomads domesticated animals

Developments towards CivilizationFarming and domestication leads to the development of job diversification.

Job diversification leads to trade and producing a surplus of food

Producing a surplus of food leads to government

All leads to our first civilizations

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