Origins of Civilizations

What happened soon after settled groups started to thrive?

• Governments were organized
• people began taming animals
• people started growing crops
• people began making tools from stone

What climate change led to the growth of cultural hearths in China's river valleys?

• warmer and wetter weather
• a slight cooling of temperatures because an ice age was starting
• wide swings in the weather with periodic droughts
• hot, dry weather

What are two major building blocks of civilizaton?

• domesticating animals and having a matriarchal society
• practicing agriculture and having a matriarchal society
• domesticating animals and having an organized religion
• practicing agriculture and having an organized religion

Besides helping people obtain goods from far away, why was trading important?

• It led to people making stone, rather than metal, tools.
• It forced people to move from the cities to rural areas.
• It helped spread ideas across a broad area.
• It led to a decrease in population.

Which of the traits of a complex civilization led to using metals to make tools?

• improved technologies
• creation of cities
• record keeping
• complex institutions

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

• nomadic community
• civilization
• matrilineal clan
• cultural hearth

How could Çatalhöyük be described?

• It was a Paleolithic village.
• It is one of the world's oldest known settlements.
• It was located in northern Africa.
• It was located in present-day Mexico.

What happened soon after communities started to thrive?

• People began taming animals
• People started growing crops.
• Governments were organized.
• People began making tools from stone.

What important new crop did farmers in Oaxaca grow?

• maize
• wheat
• beans
• barley

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

• northern Europe
• southwestern Asia
• Mediterranean area
• South America