Vocabulary
Cultural Hearths
Gobekli Tepe
Rivers
Traits of Civilization
100

What is a cultural hearth? 

What is a place where new ideas and practices first began?

100

Where is Oaxaca located?

What is the Tehuacán Valley?

100

What was the purpose of Gobekli Tepe? 

What is a religious monument or a ritual site for hunter-gatherer groups? 

100

The Nile River is located on what continent? 

What is Africa? 

100

What happened soon after communities started to thrive?

What are Governments and Religions were organized? 

200

What important new crop did farmers in Oaxaca grow?

What is maize?

200

What cultural hearth was located near the Fertile Crescent?

What is Çatalhöyük?

200

True or False:  Images of ferocious animals were carved into its pillars.

What is True? 

200

The Balsas River was closest to which cultural hearth? 

What is Oaxaca? 

200

What is it called when there is an organized exchanging of goods? (Hint: vocab word)

What is trade? 

300

Record keeping was performed by what specialized worker?

What is a scribe?

300

How could Çatalhöyük be described?

What is it's the world's oldest known settlement? 

300

What was Gobekli Tepe originally thought to have been? 

What is a medieval cemetery or a sanctuary used by nomadic hunter-gatherers?

300

The Fertile Crescent is between which two important rivers? 

What is the Tigris and Euphrates? 

300

What are the two major building blocks of civilization?

What are practicing agriculture and having an organized religion?

400

The amount more than what is required or necessary.

What is a surplus?

400

What geographic feature was near Faiyum?

What is the Nile River? 

400

It's widely accepted that Gobekli Tepe was built by what type of people? 

Who are hunter-gatherers/nomads? 

400

The Huang He River is closest to which cultural hearth? 

What is Banpo in China? 

400

True or False: Early human civilizations primarily believed in a single God.  One God.  Monotheism.

What is False? 

500

the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced. (think of the 5 traits)

What is civilization?

500

Where did many of Faiyum’s farming practices come from?

Where is the Mediterranean area?

500

Gobekli Tepe was discovered in what modern-day country? 

What is Turkey? 

500

Explain why rivers were so vital to the success of early civilizations. 

What is because rivers were the lifeblood of agriculture because of irrigation and watering crops?  Rivers provide free access to one of the most important, basic human needs (water). 

500

What trait of a complex civilization led to using metals to make tools?

What is improved technology?