Locations
This site is located in modern-day Syria and sits by the Euphrates River
What is Tell Abu Hureyra?
Tell Abu Hureyra was first occupied around this year.
What is 11,000 BCE?
People at Tell Abu Hureyra began to do this with plants, especially rye.
What is farming or cultivating?
This early settlement is found in northern Syria and is known for its round huts.
What is Mureybet?
This site is considered the world’s oldest temple and dates to around 9600 BCE.
What is Göbekli Tepe?
This type of structure was common in Mureybet.
What are round huts?
Göbekli Tepe is in this modern-day country.
What is Turkey?
Mureybet was occupied mainly between these years.
What is 10,000–8,000 BCE?
What’s one reason people stopped being nomads and started settling in one place?
What is farming or access to stable food?
These two sites are both located in what part of the world, known for being the "cradle of civilization"?
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This major event, called the ________ Revolution, began during the time of these sites.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
True or False: Göbekli Tepe was a farming village.
What is False?
All three sites lie near this important river
What is the Euphrates River?
This prehistoric period came before the Neolithic.
What is the Paleolithic?
This process, important to the Neolithic Revolution, involves taming animals.
What is domestication?