Ancient World History

What does the term “civilization” mean?

• Larger groups of people living together in one place in more complex societies with social hierarchies and specialization of labor.

• The process by which people change plants and animals over time at a genetic level to increase their productivity or other desired traits.

• A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category because of their power, talent, wealth, or other characteristic.

• A way of life where a group of people survives from the secondary products of herds. People follow patterns of grazing to keep their herds alive.

How did geography play a key role in the early development of civilizations?

• Societies developed near oceans.

• Societies developed in river valleys.

• Societies developed in the desert.

• Societies developed in the tundra.

River valleys offer societies access to water and fertile soil for highly productive agriculture as well as large mammal and plants suitable for domestication.

• True

• False

Because of intense farming, civilizations required more people to live in an area, which of the following developed:

• Culture

• Law

• Written Language

• All of these

Civilizations in Afro-Eurasia developed around rivers. Which of the following is NOT one of those rivers?

• Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia

• The Nile in Egypt

• The Indus River in modern India/Pakistan

• The Amazon in Brazil

What is social hierarchy?

• A rule of conduct or action that is binding and enforced by a controlling authority.

• A type of civilization that developed near or around a major river and considered the earliest known large human civilizations.

• An order of social classes with producers at the bottom and leaders or kings at the top.

• A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category because of their power, talent, wealth, or other characteristic.

What does polytheistic mean?

• Worshipping or believing in more than one god.

• A person who was able to read and write, allowing for the creation of written records and messages.

• Large groups of domesticated animals like sheep or goats.

• A series of rulers in a particular place considered members of the same family.

What is intensification?

• An organizing structure where the main unit has the power, right, and ability to control smaller units.

• When people begin to live permanently in one place instead of moving around to find food

• Getting more resources from a given land area by creating new technologies and lifeways.

• An order of social classes with producers at the bottom and leaders or kings at the top.

How did intensification effect early civilizations?

• More people moved away from the cities.

• Increase in the number of people in a particular place.

• It put people out of jobs.

• It increased the number of Pastoral Peoples.

Writing systems and laws developed over time in the exact same way for each society.

• True

• False