Sedentary Life The birth of agriculture NomadismNomadic Tribes
Sedentary Life The birth of agriculture
• Nomadism/Nomadic: Tribes which constantly move to follow prey animals • Sedentarization / Sedentary: Permanent settlements in a territory • Fertile Crescent: are of the middle east where agriculture was born • Society: An organized group of people who have been settled in an area for a long time and established long lasting relationships among them • Social Hierarchy: ranking members of society based on their power • Artisans: a person who makes things with their hands and are self employed • Barter trading one product for another • Currency: a system of money Vocabulary
• Tribes were nomadic and adapted to their environment • Lived in small families as they could not support large groups • Gradually they learned farming and created new social structures (social hierarchy) • Farming emerges around 10000 BCE in the fertile crescent and allows Sedentarization Paleolithic Age
Fertile Crescent
• During this period the communities that settled develop new agricultural tools and techniques • These new agricultural tools(seen on page 12 of your text) allow for a greater yield of food so that humans can live in greater numbers • During this time they also learned to use metal to make stronger tools, weave baskets and to weave wool for clothes Neolithic Age
• As the communities grew they organized themselves into societies. These societies formed the first cities. • Cities allowed for the gathering of people and sharing the means of survival such as food and skills • Cities were also encouraged people to live together as they could be defended from invaders First Cities
• Most people were farmers • Since they had new technics of growing food not everyone was needed to farm • this led to some people specializing in other kinds of work i. e. Weavers of blacksmiths • These artisans lived in the cities and traded their services to farmers for food • At first societies would us barter but as they grew they would invent currency First Economies
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