1. Prior to the Neolithic Revolution, how did people get food? (See text box)
They hunted and gathered food.

2. Define technology.
The tools and knowledge to perform tasks. (Note: this can be as simple as making and using a digging stick or as complicated as designing and utilizing a computer.

3. Why would pottery and baskets have been important to food-gathers?
To hold and store food.

4. What is a traditional economic system?
An economy in which jobs, production, and distributions of production is based on ritual, custom, or habit. (Example: Such as a tribal tradition where all men are hunters, and all women are food gathers. Also, in societies where the children are assigned the same jobs their parents perform.)

5. Define domesticate.
Domestic means home. Domesticate means to adapt for home use. Such as to “tame” or adapt wild animals for domestic use.

6. What two things happened that resulted in the Neolithic Revolution?
Man learned to produce his own food by farming and domesticating animals.

7. Explain why the Neolithic Revolution made it possible for some people to establish permanent settlements?
Once people learned to farm and domestic animals, they could build permanent dwellings in an area that had water, fertile land and grasses for grazing. They did not have to move with the seasons or follow the movement of wild animals.

8. From your knowledge list three geographic factors would have been necessary for people to be able to farm at this time?
They would have needed fertile land, water, and a climate where crops could grow.

9. How long is millennium?
1,000 years.

10. From your knowledge, what does “crop yield” mean?
The amount produced. Generally speaking, the better the technology, the higher the production. (A person using a digging stick would not be able to plant or produce as much grain as someone using a plow. The addition of fertilizer can increase crop production, etc.)

11. Explain the term, “standard of living.”
The level of development in a country based on individual income, shelter, education, diet, life expectancy, technology; and any other factors that contribute to comfort or quality of life.

12. What is the difference between subsistence farming and producing excess food?
Farmers who can only produce enough food to survive or subsist are referred to as subsistence farmers. Farmers who can produce more food then they need to fed their families, are producing an excess. The excess food can be traded for other items, thus, raising the standard of living of the family.

13. Economically speaking, what does the word, demand mean?
In economics, the need and desire for goods and services combined with the willingness and ability to pay for them.

14. About when was the wheel invented?
Circa 3000 BC

15. Who, when and where was silk fabric first made?
Chinese, 3000 BC, China

16. From your knowledge, explain how the increase in food created a need for government and written records?
455 AD, The increase in food led to a better diet. A better diet led to an increase in population. The increase in population created a need to organize social behavior thus creating a need for government. Increased food production created an increase in the amount of goods that could be sold or traded; written records were needed to record business transactions. ( Ask students to draw a diagram illustrating cause and effect)

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