Vocabulary
A type of corn first domesticated by early Mesoamericans
What is maize?
What was the oldest known settlement?
What is Catalhoyuk?
Near what geographical feature did the four ancient cultural hearths emerge?
What are rivers?
What was carved onto the pillars at Gobekli Tepe?
What are images of ferocious animals, possibly hinting at religious meaning?
A written language or system is developed to store and organize information about business transactions, important events, laws, and traditions.
What is record keeping?
A main crop produced in a specific place
What is a staple?
What staple crop was domesticated in Oaxaca?
What is maize?
Name two different geographic features.
What are rivers, mountains, oceans, lakes, deserts, etc?
Describe the physical layout of Gobekli Tepe.
What are several T-shaped, limestone blocks arranged in various circles?
These are large population centers that serve as centers of trade and culture for the surrounding area.
What are advanced cities?
A political, economic, and cultural center with a large population
What is a city?
Why were cultural hearths important?
What is they are where new ideas, inventions, and technology spread? They were the beginnings of civilization.
What is a geographic feature?
What are physical landforms and artificial landscapes that shape the environment and influence human activities like settlement, transportation, and political boundaries
In which modern country is Gobekli Tepe located?
What is Turkey?
Which trait of civilizations would include people such as potters, weavers, metalworkers, and merchants, rather than only farming?
What are specialized workers?
A place from which new ideas, practices, and technology spread.
What is a cultural hearth?
Faiyum is located near what geographical feature
What is the Nile River?
What is surplus?
What is extra food or more food than required?
Who built Gobekli Tepe?
What is it is thought to have been built by hunter-gatherers, and not farmers?
Making tools is an example of which of the 5 characteristics of civilizations?
What is advanced technology?
A person who performs a job other than farming, such as metalworking or toolmaking
What is a specialized worker?
Faiyumâs farming practices came from across what sea?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What was organized after communities started to thrive?
What are agriculture and organized religion?
Why was Gobekli Tepe important?
What is it was a revolutionary discovery that challenges the previously thought notion that only farmers could build monumental architecture. It brought up the question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Name the 5 traits of civilizations.
What are advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology?