Vocab
Professions
Animal and Plant Domestication
Neolithic Revolution
River Civilizations
100
A massive change
What is a revolution
100
This the written past
What is History
100
The first animal to be domesticated
What is a dog
100
The Neolithic Revolution began here
Where is the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
100
The Nile is found here
What is Egypt
200
Having an abundance of something, especially a crop
What is surplus
200
The study of what is left behind by earlier peoples, found in the ground
What is archaeology
200
The first type of food to be domesticated
What is wheat
200
Early peoples who moved from place to place in search of food were called
What is hunter-gatherers
200
The Tigris and Euphrates are located in present day
What is Iraq
300
Someone who travels from place to place
What is a nomad
300
The study of the past before written record
What is prehistory
300
The place where both plants and animals were domesticated
What is Mesopotamia
300
The Neolithic Revolution is important to history because
What is it led to the domestication of plants and animals and thus society itself.
300
Five qualities necessary for a society to be called a civilization
What are government, religion, cities, time, specialization, social classes, tool making (technology), literacy, education, money
400
To bring water to crops, especially from a river
What is to irrigate
400
People who study the what people leave behind are
What is archaeologists
400
Characteristics necessary to domesticate an animal
What are docile, herbivore, etc.
400
Before towns and cities can be formed in a society, societies must
What is create a surplus
400
Name the four major River Valley civilizations
What are Indus, Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, and Yellow
500
Someone who stays in one place is
What is sedentary
500
The best social studies teacher you've ever had
Who is Mr. P
500
Name the "Big Five"
What is sheep, cows, pigs, horses, and goats
500
The direct result of the Neolithic Revolution was
What is the transition from hunter-gatherer groups to sedentary societies
500
The key geographic feature of all river valleys is
What is fertile soil
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