Topic 1 Lesson 4: New Ways of Life

Where was the first center of agriculture? Where did farming begin?

• South America

• France

• Mr. Martino's back yard

• Southwest Asia

Answer explanation

Southwest Asia had great soil, so it was a great place to start growing crops!

Specialization means...

• Something people are experts in. (Toolmaking)

• extra of something

• the system a community uses to create and give goods and services

• collect a large amount of something

Answer explanation

"Special" is the a word part of specialization. So ask yourself, what is your "special" talent, when you see this word.

Accumulate means...

• Something people are experts in. (Toolmaking)

• extra of something

• the system a community uses to create and give goods and services

• collect a large amount of something

Answer explanation

Accumulate and Surplus are related words, but have slightly different meanings.

Accumulate means to collect a lot of things. It's a verb.

Surplus just means to have extra of something. It's a noun.

Surplus means...

• Something people are experts in. (Toolmaking)

• extra of something

• the system a community uses to create and give goods and services

• collect a large amount of something

Answer explanation

Accumulate and Surplus are related words, but have slightly different meanings.

Accumulate means to collect a lot of things. It's a verb.

Surplus just means to have extra of something. It's a noun.

An economy is...

• Something people are experts in. (Toolmaking)

• extra of something

• the system a community uses to create and give goods and services

• collect a large amount of something

Answer explanation

Economy = talking about money.

What are people buying?

What are people making?

What are people selling?

It's aaaaall about money.

Specialization IN THIS LESSON would include people who...

• Are very good at one skill.

• Speak one language very well.

• Can solve almost any problem.

• Grow all their own food.

Answer explanation

"Skill" is the key word here.

What made the first villages possible?

• Armies

• Farming

• Government

• Warm clothes

What happens in an economy?

• Hunters, gatherers, and farmers hang out.

• Only enough goods are made for a small number of people to survive.

• Services produce goods and then they are saved for later.

• Goods and services are produced and distributed.

Answer explanation

This question seems tough because there is a lot of text but if you take your time it's really not that hard.

Agriculture is...

• gain 

• the science of farming, working with soil, and raising livestock (animals)

• collect a large amount of something

• Goods and services are produced and distributed.

One way that the early cities of Catalhoyuk and Uruk are DIFFERENT is...

• Catalhoyuk is much larger in size than Uruk.

• Catalhoyuk has a cooler national anthem.

• Uruk is much larger in size than Catalhoyuk.

• Uruk was a city more focused on fishing.

Answer explanation

See #6 on the Reading Support.

Catalhoyuk only had about 6,000 people.

Uruk had over 40,000 at its peak.