Mrs. D Early Man 10/23

3. Introducing goats that ate everything in sight created the first ____ disaster on record.
6. Humans are the only species to ____ to other continents on their own power.
7. Humans either became _____to diseases or they got sick and died.
8. The ____ of early humans was much shorter that it is today because they did not have the medical knowledge or tools we use today.
12. Growing one crop in one area over time.
13. Another name for hunter/ gatherers.
14. Agricultural life was much more ____ than a nomadic life
16. Foragers/hunter-gatherers were believed to have a ____ diet.
18. As food supplies increase so does ____.
19. Rules in nomadic groups usually addressed how to treat _____ members.
21. Living close together in villages caused ____to spread faster in humans, plants,and animals
22. The ______ forms the eastern border of Egypt.
24. Humans added _____ to the soil after crops used all the nutrients.
26. As people learned to grow more food in a short period of time they discovered they needed to build a system to ____ the grain.
27. Over time people learned more and more as they came in contact with other groups of people. Developing written language really helped preserve the ____knowledge of the group.
29. The fertile crescent borders what sea?
30. Shifting from an active foraging life to life with agriculture meant staying in one place. We call this a ___lifestyle.

1. Early humans assigned tasks in villages according to _____.
2. More people = the need for more food which = the need for more people ____ in the fields.
4. All rivers flow _____.
5. Humans worked to ____crops and animals by selecting the best seeds and animals to reproduce so they would have bigger and better food.
6. This particular food provided better nutrition and was easier to harvest than wheat.
9. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into this body of water.
10. The fertile crescent is located north of this country.
11. The area between the Persian Gulf and Israel where people first started farming life.
12. The official name for the land between the rivers.
15. Early people understood the need to ____ outside of their family group to increase the likelihood of having healthy children.
17. The Tigris and ____ rivers made the Fertile Crescent great for agriculture.
20. We aren't sure if ____ (or farming) was driven by climate change or population change.
23. The social studies term we use to describe stripping away nutrients from the soil or area.
25. Tens of thousands of years ago and even today humans have to constantly work to keep ____ out of their food supply.
28. Scientists and historians believe a ____ was the first to begin planting seeds to grow crops.