Unit 2: Anticipation Guide

Life in ancient civilizations has nothing in common with our modern way of life.

Tools and technology played an important role in the development of civilizations.

Writing was an important feature of ancient civilizations.

Archaeologists are only concerned with written records in order to understand the past.

Prehistoric people provided insight into their lives through cave paintings.

Chronological order is order based on time.

BCE dates are more recent than CE dates.

. Natural resources were important in the past and are still important today.

Once archaeologists determine what the past was like, their ideas never change.

Ancient civilizations were all distinct, with very little in common with each other.

. Rivers, like the Nile and the Tigris and Euphrates, helped early civilizations grow and thrive.

Farming had little to do with the development of civilizations