Hunter Gatherers
These animals were domesticated by early humans to help with the hunt during the day and to provide warmth at night.
What are dogs?
All of the earliest civilizations on Earth had a major one of these landforms passing through it.
What are rivers?
One of the 8 major features of a civilization is the development of advanced these. After all, the population had grown too big for everyone to still be living in smaller villages.
What are cities?
Agriculture was eventually "discovered" by hunter/gathers, which is the practice of doing this.
What is farming?
Ancient civilizations worked hard to build massive versions of these in order to keep out invaders and protect their cities.
What are walls?
Hunter/gatherers lived during this era
What is the Paleolithic Era?
Mesopotamia was given this nickname, due to the fact that it was a rare site on Earth where wheat and barley grew wild.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
As food surpluses grew, people could make a living doing things other than farming. Jobs became more specialized. This feature of civilization is called division of this.
What is labor?
To prevent food from being stolen or contaminated by rodents, people started to domesticate these.
What are cats?
One of the major contributions provided to us by the Sumerians was the invention of this, which continues to serve such functions as making laws, collecting taxes, and overseeing the military.
What is government?
Hunter/gatherers lived this kind of lifestyle, which means that they were always on the move.
What is nomadic?
All four of the earliest civilizations were bordered by deserts, which provided this benefit for the citizens.
What is protection from invaders?
Beliefs and values of Sumerians were able to be expressed through these, another feature of civilization.
What are art and architecture?
People living in the earliest agricultural communities lived during this era.
What is the Neolithic Era?
Most ancient people were this, which means that they worshiped more than one god or goddess.
What is polytheistic?
This ancient form of artwork often depicted the hunt and is thought to be some of the earliest art ever created.
What are cave paintings?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
As jobs became more specialized, people were grouped into a hierarchy based on their status. This feature of civilization is called this.
What are social classes?
People of this era began domesticating other larger animals, like oxen, pigs, and horses. Not to eat them, but to serve this purpose.
What is to provide milk?
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What is to help with farming?
Also invented by Sumerians, Cuneiform is a pictographic style of doing this essential task.
What is writing?
As hunter gatherers began to settle into villages for the first time, they learned to domesticate plants, beginning with this tree that yielded a sweet, dessert type of fruit.
What is the fig tree?
Due to regular yearly flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerians invented this process, which helped them to use excess flood water to feed their growing crops.
What is irrigation?
Projects funded by the government that were meant to benefit all members of the civilization are known as this.
What is public works?
Once they could grow their own food, people adopted this type of lifestyle, which means to live in one place permanently.
What is sedentary?
Chatal Hyuk, an ancient village uncovered by archaeologists, showed no evidence of streets or alleys. Buildings were entered this way.
What is through the roof?