Vocabulary Match
This era is known as the Old Stone Age and involved hunting and gathering.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
The shift from hunting and gathering to farming is called the ________________.
What is the Neolithic Revolution
Which geographic feature most influenced the earliest civilizations?
What are rivers?
One effect of the Neolithic Revolution was the growth of these types of communities.
What are permanent settlements?
The first river valley civilization was Mesopotamia between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The term for farming and growing crops for food.
What is Agriculture?
People who move from place to place are called ________________.
What are Nomads?
The river most closely associated with development of ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
Before the Neolithic Revolution, humans mostly lived this way.
What is nomadic?
The Nile River civilization is located in this ancient country.
What is Egypt?
A person who moves from place to place in search of food.
What is a Nomad?
Civilizations first developed near ________________, which provided fertile soil, water, and transportation.
What are rivers?
The river valley civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The Neolithic Era is also called the ________________ Age.
What is the New Stone Age?
Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were cities in this civilization.
What is the Indus River Valley?
The turning point when humans shifted from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Mesopotamia is located between the ________________ and ________________ Rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The river valley civilization known for planned cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
What is the Indus River Valley?
This method helped farmers supply water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
The civilization with advanced sewage systems and city planning.
What is the Indus River Valley civilization?
An advanced society with cities, government, writing, and social hierarchy.
What is Civilization?
The ________________ River Valley civilization is known for advanced urban planning and sewage systems.
What is the Indus?
Which of these geographic features was least helpful to early civilizations?
A. Mountains
B. Rivers
C. Deserts
D. Seas
What are deserts?
The Neolithic Revolution led to the rise of this type of society with social hierarchy and government.
What is civilization?
This civilization is known for being the first to develop writing.
What is Mesopotamia?