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.
Question 2
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What is a cultural hearth?
Question 3
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What were the four cultural hearths?
Question 4
4.
Why are cultural hearths important?
Question 5
5.
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.
Question 6
6.
Which of the following describes the village of Catalhoyuk?
Question 7
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Around what year did Catalhoyuk develop?
Question 8
8.
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.
Question 9
9.
Around what year did Banpo develop?
Question 10
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What is unique about the Yangshao culture?
Question 11
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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.
Question 12
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Why did maize become an important crop in Oaxaca?
Question 13
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How do archaeologists know that Mesoamericans domesticated maize?
Question 14
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Based on the illustration, what changes did domestication bring about to teosinte?
Watch the first 1 minute and 10 seconds.
Question 15
15.
Maize was domesticated from teosinte about _____ years ago.
Question 16
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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.
Question 17
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What river system supported Faiyum?
Question 18
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In what way was Faiyum Different from Oaxaca?
Question 19
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How did a climate shift that took place 10,000 years ago change the Sahara and Nile River Valley?
Question 20
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Which cultural hearth do you find the most interesting and why?
