Agriculture and Early Settlement Voice

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

• Expansion of civilization's territory

• conquest of one people by another

• migration of one people to another location

• outbreak of disease

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

• Rivers contributed the resources need for widespread agriculture to develop

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

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

• Rivers made it easier to travel long distance needed to trade

How did human societies change throughout the Neolithic Age?

• None of These

• All humans stopped gathering food and began to practice agriculture

• Job specialization led to less distinct division of social classes

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

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

• Conflicts over land

• Shortages of food and water

• Formation of religions

• Need to organize projects

Imagine a nomadic hunter-gatherer and a farmer of the Neolithic Era arguing with each other concerning their quality of life-

The farmer would most likely say -

• I have greater mobility

• I will live and longer and healthier life

• I have more personal freedom

• I have access to a wider variety of foods

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

• Creation of surplus food supplies

• Trade between different civilizations

• Domestication of animals

• Change brought on by warming of climate

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

• Increased food supply by enabling them to plow larger fields

• 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 the lifestyles by providing 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?

• Development of methods to store food

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

• Domestication of animals to use as beasts of burden

• Human's ability to make wild grains more productively

Which advances did the most to sustain the growing population during the Neolithic Era?

• Increased

  scientific knowledge

• Development of agriculture

• Improved hunting method

• New construction technique