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| Question | Answer |
| fire | Paleolithic people for keeping warm, hunting, cooking |
| sub saharan agriculture | beans ,yams, potatoes in Africa |
| globalization of agric | Colunbian exchange |
| diffusion of agriculture | spread of traded products and agricultural goods by trading - used in each others societies |
| catalhuyuk | atal Huyuk, in Anatolia, (Turkey) is the best example of an early neolithic town where the transition to a fully settled existence has been satisfactorily achieved. Food is produced by agriculture, with the cultivation of wheat and barley, a |
| akkadians | he Akkadian Empire was the first ancient Semitic-speaking empire of Mesopotamia, centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia in the Bible. The empire united Akkadian and Sumerians |
| wheel | ewheel was invented in Mesopotamia by the Sumerians. They invented the wheel and the chariot. The Egyptians didn't develop the wheel until Hyksos invaded Egypt in 1750-1550BC. Hyksos brought in chariots and, through cultural diffusion, the Egyptians learned the workings of thwnwheel |
| agriculture in americas | The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products. Most farms were geared toward subsistence production for family use. The rapid growth of population and the expansion of the frontier opened up large numbers of new farms, and clearing the land was a major preoccupation of farmers. After 1800, cotton became the chief crop in southern plantations, and the chief American export. After 1840, industrialization and urbanization opened up lucrative domestic markets. |
| irrigation | irrigation Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall. |
| soil erosion | soil erosion is a naturally occurring process that affects all landforms. In agriculture, soil erosion refers to the wearing away of a field's topsoil by the natural physical forces of water (Figure 1) and wind (Figure 2) or through forces associated with farming activities such as tillage. |
| dreamtime | The Dreaming is used to represent many Aboriginal concepts of "time out of time," or "everywhen," when the land was inhabited by ancestral figures, |
| out of africa | an origin of modern humans Recent African origin of modern humans In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), the "recent single-origin hypothesis" (RSOH), "replacement hypothesis", or "recent African origin model" (RAO), is the most widely accepted |
| context questions | Contexts in which people were living help to explain how they lived, why they may have done things they did, how they were helped or hindered by unequal social relations, and values or experiences you may have inherited.before asking historical context questions, it is important to gather as specific information as you can about exactly where family units were living, decade by decade — not only what state, but also what county, township, and town. |
| Primary sources | see |
| babylonians | Babylonia Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia. A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained at this time the minor administrative town of Babylon. |
| weapons in Mesopotamia | The most common offensive weapon used by the Mesopotamians was the bow and arrow. They used chariots. Other frequently used weapons included spears, javelins, maces with stone heads, battle-axes with metal blades, daggers and swords with sickle-shaped blades used for slashing. Sling shots were also used. |
| plows | over 5000 years ago some prehistoric farmer, perhaps in Mesopotamia, got the bright idea of hitching his ox to his digging stick -- and so the plow was invented. Such primitive stick plows still are used in some parts of the world. The construction of this earliest plow was probably that of a crooked tree branch, making it an easily found mechanism in the Mesopotamian environment. Though it was better than having to dig separate holes, |
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