1.1 and 1.2 Notes Review Game

How did Surplus agriculture impact the development of human societies?

• It had little to no impact

• It allowed more people to be able to hunt

• It made it necessary for a larger percentage of people to have to farm

• It allowed more people to specialize in tasks that were not agricultural

Civilization can best be described as...

• Non-complex and simple ways of human culture

• Organized and complex society

• The use of stone tools by hominids

• Small hunter gatherer tribes

'Social Stratification' can best be described as...

• All people within a society have equal amounts of power, wealth, and respect

• Small Scale tribal groups during the Paleolithic Age

• The use of stone tools for agricultural production

• layers of society, or 'classes' of people

'Domestication' can best be described as...

• The hunting of wild animals

• The gathering of wild fruits like berries

• Making plants and animals useful to human beings

• The use of stone tools for hunting

Animism is the name given to the earliest types of human beliefs about religion. It is best described as...

• Belief in one God

• Belief in spirits and gods within the physical world

• Belief in no gods

• Not believing in an afterlife of any kind

Cultural Diffusion can best be described as...

• The spread of ideas and technologies across different groups of people

• The isolation of one society or culture from others

• The invention of agriculture

• The use of stone tools for hunting and gathering

How did The Code of Hammurabi help to create order within Babylonian society?

• It prevented people from understanding the king's laws

• It limited the spread of cultural diffusion to surrounding societies

• It weakened the authority of the king

• It unified the various peoples of Hammurabi's kingdom

Most Ancient societies/Civilizations practiced which form of religion?

• Monotheism

• Catholicism

• Polytheism

• Pantheism

How can geography impact human culture?

• It typically has little to no impact on human culture

• It can prevent the development of any style or type of culture within a given region

• It can influence the type of economy, society, and religion the people of an area practice

• It almost always leads to cultures becoming monotheistic

Why did the first four civilizations of our planet all develop near rivers and valleys?

• Development near these geographic features was completely coincidental

• Rivers provided drinking water as well as water for crop irrigation

• While valleys were useful because they allowed troops to see invaders, rivers really had no impact on development

• The early people that began to develop these civilizations feared mountains