Chapter 1: Origins of Civilizations

Which statement is true in the contxt of early cities and civilizations?

A(n) _______ refers to a person specially trained to read, write, and keep records in ancient civilizations.

______________ refers to the study of past people and cultures through their material remains.

The person in the image is most likely to be a(n) __________________.

Which place is described as a gorge with 2.1 million rocks at the bottom & provided us with fossil remains of hominids?

To which time period does the specimen in the image belong?

______________ refers to the period of the time before writing was invented.

This is a picture of Çatalhüyük. What do the connected mud-brick houses suggest?

Which village is described as only the size of a few soccer fields but the village was surrounded by a huge wall?

The Old Stone Age beliefs that spirits and forces reside in animals, objects or dreams is known as ___________.

Which early hominid group was the first to use fire and the hand ax?

What is the significance of this photograph taken at Jericho?

What was one of the basic features of early civilizations?

The Leakeys discoverd ancient stone tools in a gorge in which country?

The ________ was the final era of prehistory and began about 9000 B.C.

The painting is most likely depicting a scene from which of the following eras?

Which statement can be inferred from the map?

Which groups of letter pairs accurately match the type of early hominid with findings about early hominids?

List each group in chronological order from earliest to latest.

The calendar was an important technology because ___________.

Which objects provided anthropologists with the first clues about prehistoric life?

What is technology?

Which time period is described as farmers domesticating plants and animals?

The photograph shows an archaeological site of one of the first villages in the world. Where is the photo taken?

Which village is described as a village covered about 3x more land than Jericho & included hundreds of mud-brick houses?