Agriculture and Early Settlement No Voice

Which event would most likely have caused early agricultural civilizations to interact with each other?

• the expansion of a civilization's territory

• the conquest of one people by another

• the migration of one people to another location

• the outbreak of disease

Which statement best explains why early civilizations were located in large river valleys?

• Rivers contributed the resources needed for widespread agriculture to develop

• River valleys provided the natural obstacles needed to protect against conquest

• River valleys had the kind of temperate climate that humans are adapted to the best.

• Rivers made it easier to travel the long distances needed to trade with each other.

How did human societies change throughout the Neolithic Age?

• All humans stopped gathering food and began to practice agriculture

• Job specialization led to a less distinct division of social classes

• None of these

• Societies became more settled and saw growth in the specialization of different kinds of work

What contributed most to the development of political leadership positions in early civilizations?

• conflicts over land

• the formation of religions

• shortages of food and water

• the need to organize projects

Which advances did the most to help sustain the growing human population during the Neolithic era?

• increased scientific knowledge

• the development of agriculture

• improved hunting methods

• new construction techniques

Imagine a nomadic hunter-gatherer and a farmer of the Neolithic Era arguing with each other concerning their respective quality of life. Each thinks his quality of life is superior.

Which argument would most likely be made by the farmer?

• "I have much greater mobility"

• "I have more personal freedom"

• "I will live a longer, healthier life."

• "I have access to a wider variety of foods."

Which factor contributed most to the development of the first cities?

• the creation of surplus food supplies

• the domestication of animals

• trade between different civilizations

• The change brought on by warming of Earth's climate

How did the domestication of goats and sheep affect how the people of the Neolithic Era lived?

• It increased the food supply by enabling them to plow larger fields.

• It expanded trade by increasing the size of the market for grain crops.

• It slowed the growth of cities by introducing new diseases into large settlements.

• It improved their lifestyles by providing them with access to more natural resources.

What factor had the greatest influence over people's decisions about the types of crops they raised during the Neolithic Era?

• what their rulers preferred to eat

• how many people needed to be fed

• what plants were native to the region

• how much they could trade with nomadic hunter-gatherers

Which factor contributed most to the end of the Neolithic Era?

• the development of methods to store food

• human's ability to use fire to make metal tools

• the domestication of animals to use as beasts of burden

• human's ability to make wild grains grow more productively