| A | B |
|---|
| domestication | The raising of animals for food and a source of power. |
| settling in one place, building of towns and cities. | Agriculture made this possible |
| Agriculture could support more people per square mile | This made population increases possible |
| surplus | growing more food than needed for immediate use |
| job specialization | The development of very specific types of work |
| Not everyone had to farm - other jobs were possible. | The result of growing surplus food |
| Agriculture (food) | Main source of wealth until the industrial age. |
| Fertile Crescent | Horseshoe-shaped area of good soil in the Middle East where agriculture and irrigation began. |
| Jericho | The world's first known city. |
| Around 8000 BC | When Jericho was founded |
| To protect their agricultural surplus from nomadic raiders. | Jericho's walls were for this: |
| China, the Americas | These two places in the world later developed farming independently of the Fertile Crescent. |
| 1 person to 1 square mile | Hunting and gathering ratio of how many people supported per square mile. |
| 25 people per square mile | Early agriculture's ratio of how many people supported per square mile. |
| cities and writing | These are primary indicators of civilization. |
| To record business dealings | Reason writing was probably first developed. |
| aristocrats | The wealthy class - controlled land and collected rent from the poor. |
| patriarchal (pay-tree-ark-all) | Term meaning "male dominated" |
| Middle East | Region in southwest Asia and Northeast Africa extending from Libya to Afghanistan. |
| Judaism, Islam, Christianity | The Middle East was the birthplace of these three major religions: |
| cuneiform | First writing, developed in Mesopotamia by the Sumerians. |
