Old Stone Age cave paintings and New Stone Age pottery are both examples of early ____.
What is art?
100
By creating these "steps," you can plant and raise food crops on hillsides, increasing your available farmland.
What are terraces?
100
____ includes a people's entire way of life and the values that they share.
What is culture?
100
When there was enough food for everyone, people started to ____ in specific jobs.
What is specialize?
200
This area in the Middle East was home to some of the first farming communities.
What is the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia?
200
Old Stone Age humans were ____-____. Their entire life was a search for more food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
200
By creating these man-made rivers, people can direct water to where it is needed.
What are canals?
200
Cultures can change through ____ from within and also through ____ with other cultures.
What are innovation and interaction?
200
"Slash-and-burn" and irrigation techniques like terraces and canals are examples of humans ____ nature.
What is adapting?
300
These two rivers were extremely important to Mesopotamian farmers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
300
In the Old Stone Age, people lived in caves. In the New Stone Age, they began to build ____ to live in.
What are villages?
300
If there is a risk that river floods will cause damage, towns may build these on the sides of the river to hold back the water.
What are levees?
300
This area of study focuses on earth's land features, nations, peoples, and cultures.
What is geography?
300
In the Old Stone Age, ____-____ had to hunt wild animals and gather wild plants for all of their food. In the New Stone Age, these people became ____ who grew all of their own food.
What are hunter-gatherers and farmers?
400
Farmers in Mesopotamia waited for these to happen each spring, caused by snow melts in Turkey's Taurus Mountains.
What are floods?
400
When farmers started to grow extra food for their villages, some people started to ____ in different skills, like making clothes or tools.
What is specialize?
400
Canals, levees, and dams are all different kinds of ____ techniques used for controlling the movement of water.
What is irrigation?
400
This is a kind of economy in which anyone is allowed to start and own a business.
What is a free enterprise system?
400
People ____ wild plants and animals for human use, and they also ____ nature to be more helpful to people.
What are domesticated and adapted?
500
The Fertile Crescent needed its rivers because the area had a very hot and dry ____.
What is climate?
500
One world-changing idea was the invention of ____; this gave people the ability to share and teach complex ideas and information.
What is language?
500
____ of animals and plants gave people dependable resources for food, clothing, and other things.
What is domestication?
500
In this type of economy, the government decides what products will be made, what services will be provided, and how much everything will cost.
What is a command economy?
500
By looking at how important the rivers and yearly floods were for farmers in Mesopotamia, we can see the influence that ____ has on civilization.