From Communities to Civilization
This is a place where new ideas and practices began to take hold.
What is a cultural hearth?
This is the modern country where Catalhoyuk is located.
What is Turkey?
This is the modern country where Banpo was located.
What is China?
This is the modern country where Oaxaca is located.
What is Mexico?
This is the modern country where Faiyum is located.
What is Egypt?
Out of the following, this occurred last: organized government, domestication of animals, farming, making stone tools.
Catalhoyuk was able to increase in size because it had a stable this.
What is food supply?
This type of climate is needed to grow rice.
What is a warm and wet climate?
This crop was domesticated in Oaxaca.
What is maize or corn?
Before people settled in Faiyum, the Nile River was this.
What is a swamp?
This helped spread goods and ideas across areas.
What is trade?
This artifact found on some walls in Catalhoyuk indicates that people there practiced religion.
What are horned bulls' heads?
These two crops were common in the Yangshao cultures in Neolithic China.
What are rice and millet?
This is the name for the region from Mexico through Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
The people of Faiyum learned this from other communitites.
What is farming or agriculture?
These are the two major building blocks of a civilization.
What are agriculture and organized religion?
These two rivers help form the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The Banpo were particularly skilled at this artform.
What is pottery?
Archaeologists know maize was domesticated because they found this.
What are cave paintings, grinding tools, and/or corn cobs?
This vocabulary word helped Faiyum gain knowledge from other communities.
What is cultural diffusion?
This is a the practice of working with metals.
What is metallurgy?
This temple also in Turkey was build by hunter-gatherers, not the people of Catalhoyuk.
What is Gobekli Tepe?
Archaeologists believe that people in Banpo had similar social standing because of this.
What is similar burial sites, or buried with the same things?
This is the name of the grass that maize was domesticated from.
What is teosinte?
These geographic characteristics made cultural hearths likely to become civilizations.
What are mild climates, fertile soil, access to water? (Any of the above)