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| People believed that the spirits of their dead ancestors | guarded the land |
| Trade developed | when people began to exchange their surplus foods for other goods |
| Farmers in areas of thick forests used | slash-and-burn farming to prepare the soil for farming |
| Gatherers who were familiar with the life cycles of plants | learned to plant seeds and grow crops |
| The AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION | occurred when people learned about agriculture and began to live in permanent settlements. |
| The earliest farming settlements | were small and hunger was a constant threat. |
| In places where crops grew well, some farming communities | did MORE than just subsist. |
| Farming communities | were established across Europe, Asia and Africa. |
| Some early people | CONTINUED to live a nomadic way of life in a PASTORAL SOCIETY. |
| People is southwestern Asia | developed the plow around 6000 B.C. and early farmers used irrigation to move water to their crops. |
| The YANGSHAO(China) | built their villages on terraces, leaving more flat land for farming. |
| The village of JERICO | grew into an important trading town, but the people abandoned the settlement around 6000 BC/ |
| The early town of CATAL HUYUK | had many shrines to show the importance of religious beliefs. |
| The people of CATAL HUYUK | made the first known linen from fiber of a flax plant. |
| With large numbers of people living in towns, | important social and political changes took place. |
| As division of labor developed, | some people became merchants or worked in jobs outside of farming. Society became divided into social classes. |
| Government, an organized system of laws and leaders, | began when towns created unwritten laws people had to live by. |
| In URBAN areas, taxation paid for projects such as | construction of irrigation projects or government buildings. |
| In 3100 BC, cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt | gave rise to the world's first CIVILIZATIONS. |
