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Am S Coch 1 Reading H Questions
Am S Coch 1 Reading H Questions
5. Describe the different ways early humans used technology to adapt to their environment.
6. Evaluate the extent of benefits humans gained from learning to control fire.
7. What social groups were typically found in the Paleolithic time period? How did the different groups connect with
one another?
10. How did some of the earliest religious beliefs develop during the Paleolithic time period?
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
11. What and when was the Neolithic Revolution?
12. Where did the Neolithic Revolution happen? Did it occur at the same time in these places? Explain.
13. How did agriculture change the lifestyles of societies that were formerly hunter-foragers?
14. What were the consequences of farming concerning diet and plant diversity?
15. What were the earliest animals to be domesticated? What kind of lifestyle change did the development lead to in
some groups of people? Describe this lifestyle.
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18. How did the surplus of food from agriculture begin to change early societies?
19. How important was the development of writing? How did it change societies?
24. How did the problems you discussed in #23 help lead to the development of more complex religious ideas and
traditions?
25. What are the five big technological developments from the Neolithic Revolution period?
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
28. What arguments have scholars made for and against the development of farming?
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