The First Communities Section 1.2

What is Irrigation? 

• ´Irrigation can route water to fields, help crops overcome drought.
• ´Irrigation can grow groups by moving water through the air to water individual leaves
• Irrigation is the movement of crops through water.
• Irrigation is crop movements in a water system through which crops are moved and the water stays still. 

Amount produced in excess of what is needed.

• extra
• bundles
• extra crops
• surplus

What is specialization?

• Skill in one type of work.
• Skilled in many types of work.
• Being a good cook and farmer.
• Being the best at something in your family.

A group of people with similar customs, backgrounds, training and income.

• artisans
• surplus
• social class
• race

________ is the cultivation of ______ soil to produce crops.

• fertile, agriculture
• surplus, fertile
• irrigation, agriculture
• agriculture, fertile

Since people needed fertile soil for farming the first cities emerged in

• River valleys
• tropical islands
• trade routes
• the Australian coast

______ is a characteristic of a civilization?

• Government
• Writing
• Religion
• All of the above

Historians have identified the basic characteristics of a civilization as:

• Vehicles, use of fire, nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering, and technology
• Villages, temples, trade, use of tools, use of fire, armies
• Use of metal, weapons, houses, food, religion, and art
• Cities, governments, religion, social structure, writing, and art

Another word for farming is...

• agriculture
• specialization
• technology
• irragation

To tame plants and animals is called

• irrigation
• training
• specialization
• domestication