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Review Answers - definitions Hunter-Gatherer: nomadic people who lived by hunting animals and gathering

Review Answers - definitions Hunter-Gatherer: nomadic people who lived by hunting animals and gathering plants for food Nomadic: involved moving around a lot Agriculturalist: person that farms Neolithic Revolution: When people started farming for food Prehistoric: Before written records Domestication: Breeding plants and animals to favor humans

Review Answers - definitions • Civilization: high level of society that has culture, science,

Review Answers - definitions • Civilization: high level of society that has culture, science, art, ect. • City-State: A city that has it’s own independent government • Cuneiform: system of writing formed by the Mesopotamians (first one ever) • Irrigation: bringing water from an outside source to water crops

Review Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Hunted animals and gathered plants Hunters hunted

Review Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Hunted animals and gathered plants Hunters hunted and farmers farmed Civilizations can’t exist in a nomadic society The Neolithic revolution led to a stable food supply Less moving around, more food and nutrition, formation of culture, specialization of work 6. People were doing different jobs, not everyone was important to society 7. Mesopotamia was a few city-states with their own rules and government

Review Answers 8. Mesopotamia = Kings Egypt= God-Kings 9. Public sewers (sanitation) 10. Egypt

Review Answers 8. Mesopotamia = Kings Egypt= God-Kings 9. Public sewers (sanitation) 10. Egypt – Hieroglyphics, and calendars Mesopotamia – Cuneiform China – paper records 11. Needed water for farming, drinking, bathing 12. Nile – had predictable flooding Tigris – Had unpredictable flooding

Review Answers • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 similar systems

Review Answers • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 similar systems of writing Both bodies of law favored the upper class poly= many gods mono= 1 God Monotheism, God created the world, God was invisible (don’t believe in Jesus) • 18 people could plant their crops further away from rivers • 19 Advanced cities, advanced technology, record keeping, complex institutions, specialized workers • 20 1 st: Domestication of Animals 2 nd: Surplus of Food 3 rd: Division of Labors 4 th: Complex civilizations