
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?