The First Civilizations Emerge on the World Stage (920L)

Some civilizations were connected to others and some remained separate. Which section of the article BEST explains why?

• "Places of early civilizations"

• "Why and how did states emerge?"

• "Areas without early civilizations"

• "Comparing early agrarian civilizations"

Choose the paragraph in the section "Why and how did states emerge?" that BEST shows the impact that animals had on the growth of civilization.

• paragraph 4

• paragraph 11

• paragraph 7

• paragraph 16

Which answer choice is a summary of the section "Areas without early civilizations"?

• People farmed all over the world, but some places did not have the right resources to support large civilizations.

• The Bantu people were forced to travel by camel to trade, and they never developed a large civilization.

• Islands, even large ones like Australia, are not good places to try forming large civilizations.

• Scientists think that the Amazon River could have potentially supported civilizations.

Which sentence BEST explains the main idea of the section "Comparing early agrarian civilizations"?

• Together they formed an Afro-Eurasian zone where people traded goods and exchanged ideas and technology.

• It seems centralized state control was needed to bring together and support large populations of people.

• Every civilization with writing started by using pictographs but switched to some form of alphabet — except the Chinese.

• While early civilizations shared many common features, the differences form a collage of human culture.