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What people were called when they had to hunt and gather their food.
What is hunter-gatherers.
Humans using plants and animals for their own purposes.
What is domestication?
A positive effect of flooding on rivers for ancient river civilizations.
What was silt that was left behind after flooding that was good for crops or farming?
The first river civilization we learned about.
What is Mesopotamia?
This played an important role in all ancient river civilizations in both their public and private lives.
What is religion?
Rivers provided water for washing clothes, bathing, and drinking or.....
What is water for personal use?
This caused the hunter-gatherer movement to go away.
What is domestication of plants and animals?
A negative effect flooding had on people's homes?
What is their house could be swept away?
The last ancient river civilization we learned about.
What is China?
This is what all ancient river civilizations had to sort out which people had power and wealth and which did not.
What is a social hierarchy?
Rivers provided water for corn, beans, and dates or...
This is how a "food surplus" effected the Earth's population.
What is increased population?
A negative effect flooding could have on livestock.
What is floods could kill livestock?
The 3rd ancient river civilization we learned about.
What is India?
This geographic feature was important to early civilizations.
What are rivers?
What is floods left behind good silt for crops?
Early civilizations moved away from being hunter-gathers and could settle in one location due to this.
What is domestication of plants and animals?
A negative effect flooding could have on crops.
What is crops could be destroyed?
The 2nd ancient river civilization we learned about.
What is Egypt?
This is how cataracts on the Nile River helped the Egyptians.
What is providing a natural barrier to keep out enemies?
This led to new inventions and advancements in early river civilizations.
What is a surplus of food?
This is one example of domesticating plants.
What is planting.... (corn, tomatoes, figs, beans....) or What is taking seeds and planting a crop?
Flooding on rivers were known to have these kind of effects on early river civilizations.
What is both a positive and negative effect?
Three rivers we learned about that ancient civilizations developed around.
What is the Tigris, Euphrates, Nile, Indus, Yellow and/or Yangtze Rivers?
This is a way in which rivers helped merchants.
What is providing a way to transport their goods with a boat?