Geography
Rivers, mountains, deserts, beaches are all examples of these.
What are rivers?
A surplus means this.
What is having more than you need?
Specialization of labor meant people could now do this.
What is focus on one job?
This provided a food source for people living near them.
What are rivers?
What is nomad or nomadic?
Farming was not the only way they gained food. They could also still do this.
What is hunting or fishing?
People could focus on one job because they no longer had to worry about this.
What is doing all the jobs or where their food was coming from?
The silt was deposited on the river banks when this happened?
What is flooding?
Staying in one place led to people doing more of this to get food.
What is farming?
What are taxes?
Focusing on one job allowed this to grow.
What is the population?
People no longer needed to do this once they discovered all the resources around rivers.
What is move around?
Rivers provided this so that they were able to grow crops.
What is water?
In Mesopotamia, they developed this to help them plant crops in their fields. It made things much faster and easier.
What is the plow?
Specialization of labor is going to lead to more of these which will help a society advance.
What is innovations, inventions, or discoveries?
Flooding in this place was violent. The opposite of the peaceful flooding that occurred in Egypt.
Where is Mesopotamia?
In permanent settlements, the people made these to get water from the rivers to their fields where they were growing food.
What are irrigation canals?
With a food surplus, people could now just focus on one of these.
What is a job?
In Mesopotamia, the people were able to create a calendar based on these to help them keep track of their days.
What are stars or zodiac?