Early Humans and the Beginning of Civilization: 15 flashcards
All 15 flashcards from this kit, free and with no sign-up.
1. What is a hunter-gatherer?
Show the answer
A person who lives by hunting animals and collecting wild plants, moving with the seasons.
2. Name the three stages of the Stone Age.
Show the answer
Paleolithic (Old), Mesolithic (Middle), and Neolithic (New) Stone Age.
3. What was the Neolithic Revolution?
Show the answer
The shift from hunting-gathering to farming and herding.
4. What does domestication mean?
Show the answer
Taming and breeding plants and animals for human use.
5. Why was control of fire important?
Show the answer
It gave warmth, light, protection, and allowed cooking of food.
6. What is a surplus?
Show the answer
More food than a group needs to survive.
7. How did surplus food lead to division of labour?
Show the answer
With extra food, some people could stop farming and become potters, weavers, toolmakers, or traders.
8. Why did early civilizations grow near rivers?
Show the answer
Rivers provided water, fertile soil, and transport.
9. Why did writing emerge?
Show the answer
To keep records of grain, taxes, and trade in growing settlements.
10. What is the chain that leads to civilization?
Show the answer
Agriculture → surplus → settled villages → division of labour → trade and records → writing and government → civilization.
11. Were hunter-gatherers' diets varied?
Show the answer
Yes, they ate a wide range of wild plants and animals.
12. Did farming immediately make life easier?
Show the answer
No — early farmers worked long hours, ate a narrower diet, and faced crop failures.
13. Why did farming win out over hunting-gathering?
Show the answer
It supported more people per unit of land.
14. What did cities require to function?
Show the answer
Leaders, rules, and record-keeping.
15. Name two early river civilizations.
Show the answer
Mesopotamia (Tigris-Euphrates) and Egypt (Nile) — also Indus and Yellow River.
Your notes can be a kit like these
Every kit here was made from real study material. Point Veda at a chapter, a PDF, a photo or a link and get notes, flashcards, practice MCQs, games and a scored test — free, in 42 languages.
- Chapter notes
- Flashcards
- Practice MCQs
- Scored tests
- Exam prep
Get Veda free See what students get
Free to start · No ads · Works in 42 languages