NatGeo Chapter 2 Section 1

What do you think this is a picture of?

Read Chapter 2 Section 1 (pg 36-45) and answer the following questions.

Objective: Learn how new ideas, practices, and technology spread from cultural hearths to different parts of the world by finding text evidence in the reading of your text book.

What is a cultural hearth?

What were the four cultural hearths?

Why are cultural hearths important?

What geographic features did ancient cultural hearths share?

Objective: Explore the settlement of Çatalhöyük, an early cultural hearth in Southwest Asia by finding text evidence in the reading of your text book.

Which of the following describes the village of Catalhoyuk?

Around what year did Catalhoyuk develop?

Why did the people of Çatalhöyük build their dwellings so close together?

Objective: Learn how the Yangshao culture developed as a cultural hearth in northern China by finding text evidence in the reading of your text book.

Around what year did Banpo develop?

What is unique about the Yangshao culture?

How did the Yangshao culture develop as a cultural hearth in northern China?

Objective: Describe how the domestication of maize helped Mesoamerica develop as a cultural hearth by finding text evidence in the reading of your text book.

Why did maize become an important crop in Oaxaca?

How do archaeologists know that Mesoamericans domesticated maize?

Based on the illustration, what changes did domestication bring about to teosinte?

Maize was domesticated from teosinte about _____ years ago.

Which of the following were made using the fibrous husk of teosinte?

Objective: Examine how early farmers along the Nile River established a cultural hearth in Egypt by finding text evidence in the reading of your text book.

What do you think this is a picture of?

What is a cultural hearth?

What were the four cultural hearths?

Why are cultural hearths important?

What geographic features did ancient cultural hearths share?

Which of the following describes the village of Catalhoyuk?

Around what year did Catalhoyuk develop?

Why did the people of Çatalhöyük build their dwellings so close together?

Around what year did Banpo develop?

What is unique about the Yangshao culture?

How did the Yangshao culture develop as a cultural hearth in northern China?

Why did maize become an important crop in Oaxaca?

How do archaeologists know that Mesoamericans domesticated maize?

Based on the illustration, what changes did domestication bring about to teosinte?

Maize was domesticated from teosinte about _____ years ago.

Which of the following were made using the fibrous husk of teosinte?

What river system supported Faiyum?

In what way was Faiyum Different from Oaxaca?

How did a climate shift that took place 10,000 years ago change the Sahara and Nile River Valley?

Which cultural hearth do you find the most interesting and why?