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NatGeo Chapter 2 Section 1

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20 Nsɛmmisa

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

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1.

What do you think this is a picture of?

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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2.

What is a cultural hearth?

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3.

What were the four cultural hearths?

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4.

Why are cultural hearths important?

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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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6.

Which of the following describes the village of Catalhoyuk?

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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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9.

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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Why did maize become an important crop in Oaxaca?

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How do archaeologists know that Mesoamericans domesticated maize?

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14.

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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16.

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.

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17.

What river system supported Faiyum?

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18.

In what way was Faiyum Different from Oaxaca?

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19.

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

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20.

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