Humans who obtain their food from nature, hunting animals and gathering wild plants are known as .
Tick the features of a hunter gatherer community.
Mobile and nomadic
Only collect food as needed
Built enclosures to keep and tame wild animals
Stored surplus food
Move on when food supply in an area is exhausted
Use of cultivation and domestication
Build simple shelters due to moving frequently
Rely on the natural food supply
Sedentary hunter-gatherer communities are groups of people who settled in one place, near a rich food resource. one place and hoped wildlife came past.( one place, near a rich food resource., one place and hoped wildlife came past. )
The process of using selective breeding to make wild plants and animals more useful to humans.
Preservation
Domestication
To cultivate means to ❌ sew and tend crops on nearby land.
Agricultural production developed side by side with hunter gatherer communities and it is believed it took what sort of time frame to be established?
6 - 12 months
5 - 10 years
Many hundreds of years
are plant beds built by Mayan farmers on floating plots of land.
Select the characteristics of agricultural farming systems.
Selective breeding was used to develop positive traits such as size and strength
Built stronger, more permanent homes and communities
Use of cultivation of wild plant and domestication of wild animals to make them more useful for humans
Choose animals that could be fed on food sources such as grass that was not a food source for humans
Food sources for hunter gatherers varied depending on their natural surroundings.
What foods hunter gatherer societies collected, depended on what grew in the area. Choose the typical foods they gathered.
Milk, cheese and butter
Fruit, roots, nuts and seeds
Societal structure of the hunter gatherer tribes was:
Small tribe groups because enough food could be found by being nomadic
Equal power and respect within the tribe, with everything being shared
Usually men hunted, while women and young children undertook the gathering and domestic tasks
Women carried one child at a time, and breastfeeding for four years spaced births until the child could walk independently
All of the above
Which of the following, that were relied upon by the hunter gatherer tribes, were affected by climatic changes and access to water?
Animal numbers
Distribution and growing patterns of wild grains and crops
An agricultural technique that involves slashing and burning plants in a forest to create fields to grow crops is called ❌ farming.
The earliest village settlements began to appear in northern ❌ about 10 000 - 6 000 BCE.
❌ covers much of what is today Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey.
Reliable water supply, locating and adapting fertile landscapes as well as the development of tools enabled the development of in Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica.
Mesoamerica was an early agricultural system that covers part of present day Mexico and Central America.
An important difference between Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia was the domestication process. In Mesoamerica they mostly focussed on domesticating plants with little attention to animals whereas in Mesopotamia both plants and animals mostly animals( both plants and animals, mostly animals ) were domesticated.
Which of the following statements are true regarding early agriculture?
Mesopotamia and mesoamerica both developed irrigation systems.
Mesoamerica is a mountainous area that made traditional irrigation systems a challenge, they were difficult to build and maintain.
Mesopotamia is a mountainous area that made traditional irrigation systems a challenge, they were difficult to build and maintain.
Chinampas, swidden farming and terraced farming all took place in Mesoamerica.
Mesoamerican farmers used ploughs drawn by horses to prepare the land.
In Mesopotamia the fields were prepared by ploughs pulled by oxen.
In ❌, barley and what were widely grown, along with oats and lentils.They also grew date palms that shaded vegetables from the hot sun, such as peas, beans, cucumber, eggplant and leeks and fruit that included grapes, apples, melons and figs.
Maize was a very important crop to the Mesoamerica region as surplus could be stored. Maize is commonly called in Australia.
In Mesoamerica the plant was culturally important plant and continues to be important in the area.
Fruit trees were thought to be some of the first plants domesticated and cultivated in:
Mesooamerica
Mesopotamia
In Mesoamerica, the "three sister" crops grew. Corn provided a stalk for beans to grow while squash grew across the ground stopping weeds from growing. The beans also added nitrogen to the soil. This is known as planting.
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