| Term | Definition |
|---|
| agriculture | the domestication of both plants and animals which lead to the swelling of population hunger environmental change |
| alluvial plain | a plain thats semi dry, created by a flood, from silt, a good place for farming |
| arid | dry hot and little rainfall |
| Catal Huyuk | A site in South Turkey, a major Neolithic site |
| chaff | Husks of Wheat |
| cull | weeding out, to choose selectively. |
| cultivate | plant's preperation |
| domesticate | to tame |
| emmer | type of grain non-domesticated brittle stems, plump juicy seeds drops seeds fast non domesticated |
| einkorn | Like Emmer except its wheat, hard to get seeds out, and seeds are smaller, cross bred w/goat grass to make normal wheat non domesticated |
| irrigate | bring water to plants mechanically |
| Jericho | IT is a Holy land 10,500 years old a archaeoligy site |
| levee | raised thing to block water |
| marsh | it is a wetland lots of mud water |
| monocrop or monoculture | 1 type of plant or culture |
| Neolithic revolution | causes and consiquences of the origins of agriculture the beginning of agriculture |
| paleobotanist | people who study ancient plants |
| pastoralist | mobile herders |
| silt | a type of soil good for farming, silt |
| steppe | dry flat grassy plain lots of animals, little soil |
| subsistence | grow for yourself the source from which food and others are necessary to exist |
| surplus | extra food produce which is left over, which can be sold, stordes, saved, or just get fat. |
| Umm Qseir | a archaeological site inb the middle east a ancient city |
| zooarchaeologist | someone who specializes in studying animal bones |
| winnow | to free the grain from the chaff |
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