Vocabulary
What is a cultural hearth?
What is a place where new ideas and practices first began?
Where is Oaxaca located?
What is the Tehuacán Valley?
What was the purpose of Gobekli Tepe?
What is a religious monument or a ritual site for hunter-gatherer groups?
The Nile River is located on what continent?
What is Africa?
What happened soon after communities started to thrive?
What are Governments and Religions were organized?
What important new crop did farmers in Oaxaca grow?
What is maize?
What cultural hearth was located near the Fertile Crescent?
What is Çatalhöyük?
True or False: Images of ferocious animals were carved into its pillars.
What is True?
The Balsas River was closest to which cultural hearth?
What is Oaxaca?
What is it called when there is an organized exchanging of goods? (Hint: vocab word)
What is trade?
Record keeping was performed by what specialized worker?
What is a scribe?
How could Çatalhöyük be described?
What is it's the world's oldest known settlement?
What was Gobekli Tepe originally thought to have been?
What is a medieval cemetery or a sanctuary used by nomadic hunter-gatherers?
The Fertile Crescent is between which two important rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
What are the two major building blocks of civilization?
What are practicing agriculture and having an organized religion?
The amount more than what is required or necessary.
What is a surplus?
What geographic feature was near Faiyum?
What is the Nile River?
It's widely accepted that Gobekli Tepe was built by what type of people?
Who are hunter-gatherers/nomads?
The Huang He River is closest to which cultural hearth?
What is Banpo in China?
True or False: Early human civilizations primarily believed in a single God. One God. Monotheism.
What is False?
the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced. (think of the 5 traits)
What is civilization?
Where did many of Faiyum’s farming practices come from?
Where is the Mediterranean area?
Gobekli Tepe was discovered in what modern-day country?
What is Turkey?
Explain why rivers were so vital to the success of early civilizations.
What is because rivers were the lifeblood of agriculture because of irrigation and watering crops? Rivers provide free access to one of the most important, basic human needs (water).
What trait of a complex civilization led to using metals to make tools?
What is improved technology?