Foundations of Civilizations

Where are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers located, and why are they important to the inhabitants of that region?

• Middle East; the region has a very dry climate, and the rivers provide irrigation and drinking water to millions of people.

• Early Mesopotamian Civilizations

• Agricultural Surpluses

• specialize across a variety of activities and work roles.

Mesopotamia is often called the cradle of civilization because ?

• It is home to one of the earliest complex civilizations.

• Code of Hammurabi

• Cradles of early civilizations

• Laws were made more consistent and predictable.

How did life after agriculture change in the cultures that developed it?

• Written languages developed.

• Specialized workers

• Theocrats were divine leaders.

• Early Mesopotamian civilizations

Sumeria, Assyria, Akkadia, and Babylonia are all examples of --

• Early Mesopotamian civilizations

• Religion became more organized.

• Middle East; the region has a very dry climate, and the rivers provide irrigation and drinking water to millions of people.

• a hunter-gathering lifestyle that changes to a settled, agrarian lifestyle.

Many historians agree that all of the following are the results of the agricultural revolution

• specialized and complex divisions of labor

• The foundations of political centralization were established by the river valley civilizations.

• agricultural surpluses

• Code of Hammurabi

One thing that was necessary for civilizations to occur was --

• agricultural surpluses

• Poetry

• irrigation from the Nile provided for farming in a desert region.

• Temples

River Valley civilizations developed as a result of --

• agricultural practices

• irrigation from the Nile provided for farming in a desert region.

• tombs for the Pharaohs

• a civilization

Which of the following is commonly considered a cause of the Neolithic Revolution?

• rise in global temperatures

• Egyptians

• polytheism.

• Tigris and Euphrates

What general effect did the Neolithic Revolution have on religion?

• Religion became more organized.

• Written languages developed.

• Became Hunter- Gatherers

• There was no more religion

Which of the following is one change to human societies as a result of the Neolithic Revolution?

• Development of specialization of labor

• specialized and complex divisions of labor

• agricultural surpluses

• irrigation from the Nile provided for farming in a desert region.