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.
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What were the four cultural hearths?
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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.
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Around what year did Catalhoyuk develop?
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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.
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Around what year did Banpo develop?
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What is unique about the Yangshao culture?
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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.
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How do archaeologists know that Mesoamericans domesticated maize?
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Based on the illustration, what changes did domestication bring about to teosinte?
Watch the first 1 minute and 10 seconds.
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Maize was domesticated from teosinte about _____ years ago.
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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.
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How did a climate shift that took place 10,000 years ago change the Sahara and Nile River Valley?
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Which cultural hearth do you find the most interesting and why?
What is a cultural hearth?
an agreement between cultures to get along
place where families built fires and shared stories
sites for the creation of customs, innovations, and ideologies that changed the world
Why are cultural hearths important?
They led to humans leaving Africa for other parts of the world.
They encouraged people to live as nomads.
They shared inventions by trading with one another.
They allowed new ideas, practices, and technology to develop.
Which of the following describes the village of Catalhoyuk?
It is one of the most advanced settlements fromt he Paleolithic Age.
It is one of the world's oldest settlements.
It was located in northern Africa.
It was in the Tehuacan Valley.
Why did maize become an important crop in Oaxaca?
It could produce a lot of food in a small space.
It required very little water.
It was developed from a grass called teosinte.
It was relied on for the annual food supply.
Which of the following were made using the fibrous husk of teosinte?
pottery
clothing
toys
baskets
sleeping mats
What river system supported Faiyum?
Tigris
Chang Jiang
Huang He
Nile
In what way was Faiyum Different from Oaxaca?
Faiyum borrowed its agricultural practices from other areas, while Oaxaca did not.
Faiyum was developed later than Oaxaca.
Faiyum began during the Paleolithic Age, while Oaxaca began during the Neolithic Age.
Faiyum farmers grew maize, while Oaxaca farmers grew wheat and barley.
