Vocab
Domesticate: to train an animal in ways useful to humans
Neolithic Revolution: the development of agriculture
Fertile: capable of producing abundant crops
Mesopotamia: productive land in the region is in Mesopotamia
Irrigated: supplying water to crops
City-state: independent political unit that includes a city and the area around it
Distinct: recognizably different from something else
Polytheism: the worship of many gods
Cuneiform: system of writing using wedge shaped marks
Questions
1. how did irrigating crops spur the development of civilization
More food was made
2. how did the Neolithic revolution lead to the development of city states
More fertile land trade off with taxes
3. how do you think the Neolithic revolution effect life today?
Changing the society as quickly, tech, complex civilization
4 how was settled life in a Neolithic village different from nomadic life
Building and technology and different classes of life
5. how did living in settlements change the way people thought and interacted
Share language and beliefs