Environment: Challenges and Adaptations
This environmental challenge was common to the Mesopotamian, Indus, and Shang as a result of their location next to rivers.
What is flooding?
This is the turning point, or big change, that occurred at the end of Paleolithic Era and began the Neolithic Era.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This is the term that we commonly use to refer people during the Paleolithic era.
What is Cavemen?
The first civilizations developed near this geographic feature because of its advantages for agriculture.
What is a river?
These are features that naturally occur on the face of the Earth (not man-made).
What are geographic features?
This adaptation that extends agriculture and controls flooding through man-made canals.
What is irrigation?
This is one change that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, also known as farming.
What is agriculture?
This is where people lived during the Paleolithic era.
All over the world!
The first civilizations are best described as these three river valley civilizations.
There are the four main directions on a compass.
What are North, South, East, and West?
This adaptation that allows for farming on a mountain or hill.
What is terrace farming?
This is one of the changes that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, also known as taming animals.
What is domestication?
During the Paleolithic era, this is how people obtained food.
What is hunting and gathering?
The first civilizations shared many characteristics, including this one that can be seen with well-planned cities and written law codes. (King Hammurabi, Dynasties)
What is a strong government?
On the compass shown, which direction is South?
Point to it
This environmental challenge was unique to the Indus and is best described as a tropical storm or hurricane that comes in cycles
What is a monsoon?
This is one change that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, also known as staying in one place.
This is the type of living where people move from place to place and never settle down.
What is nomadic lifestyle?
The first civilizations shared many characteristics, including this one that housed the majority of the population. (Babylon, Mohenjo-Daro, Anyang)
What are major cities?
On the compass shown, which direction is East?
Point to it
These fields were designed to flood by the Shang. When water flooded them, the rice would float to the top, making it easier to harvest.
What is rice paddies?
The Neolithic Revolution is best described as a change from what kind of living? (describe how people lived before the Neolithic Revolution)
From hunter-gatherers, nomads, stone tools, etc.
This is the full name for BCE.
The first civilizations shared many characteristics, including this one that included calendars, wheels, currency, and metalwork.
What is advanced technology?
The first civilizations shared these three geographic features.
What are rivers, deserts, mountains?