Pearson Lesson 4-5 New Ways of Life and Rise of Civilizations

Surplus means _____________.

• Really good

• Extra

• Super

• A special kind of addition

How did people benefit from surplus food?

• Having surplus food helped the early people to specialize in different skills like pottery making, clothing making, weapon making, and other kinds of skills.

• So they can get fat.

• Surplus food meant that they can feed their animals better.

• Surplus food meant that they could have junk food.

What does specialization mean?

• Specialization happens when I study hard.

• Specialization is when you make something better or more special.

• When my mom says I am special. She loves me so much!!!

• The act of concentrating on a limited number of goods or activities. (this means people can focus on skills or talents they have instead of spending all their time looking for food)

What does economy mean?

• Money

• Something they talk about on that boring newscast my dad watches everyday.

• The system by which a country's people earn their living.

• Larger packages of things like toilet paper or chips, that my mom and dad get at stores like Costco or Sam's Club.

What is a benefit? Select all the right answers.

• A school dance.

• A gain or a favorable result.

• Something bad that happens to you.

• Something good that happens to you or for you because of something you do or did.

Which sentence uses the word "accumulated" correctly?

• When farmers accumulated a lot of crops, they could trade some of those crops for things they needed.

• Because his business was doing well, he accumulated a lot of wealth.

• He accumulated to the cold air up north.

• A big fan of the Magic card game, Jimmy accumulated over 500 cards.

Select the early crops that ancient people grew. Select all correct answers.

• Wheat

• Millet

• Potatoes

• Peppers

What kind of permanent houses did the people of Catalhöyük build?

• They did not build shelters because Catalhöyük was a Paleolithic village, which means they did not farm.

• They built shelters of sticks and branches with palm leaves to keep the rain out.

• They built shelters made of mud and straw with entry ways on the roofs of the buildings.

• Their homes were built of rocks stacked on top of each other with mud for cement to hold them together.

Catalhöyük's economy was based on farming, while Uruk's economy was based on both ________ and _________. Select both correct answers.

• Farming

• Fishing

• Pottery-making

• Trade

A complex society with cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills is a ____________.

• Religion

• Kingdom

• Civilization

• Village