Why did the original inhabitants of Australia not develop agriculture?
The first Australians were too isolate to learn of developments elsewhere until recently
The tenth century BCE refers to
990~900 years before the birth of Crhist
Egypt differed from Mesopotamian civilization by stressing
Well organized, durable empires
A characteristic of the human species before the advent of civilization was
the ability to spread to various geographic settings and climate zones
The charactersitic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was
regional/city states
The develoment of agriculture cause important changes in all of the following EXCEPT
the tendency to believe in many gods
The development of writing
helps explain why goverments could become more formal and bureaucratic
A society is almost certainly a civilization if
it is agricultural
Sumerian civilization produced the first
written law code
Which river-valley civilization was almost completely destroyed by invasion
Indus
The Paleothetic age refers to
the period in which simple stone tools were developed
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of all early civilizations
a written way of communication
Hunting and gathering societies
organize rather small groups into political units
All of the folllowing were features of the civilizations in Mesopotmia, Mesoamerica, the Indus River valley, and the Yellow River Valley EXCEPT
religious systems that included sacrifice rituals
The Neolithic Revolution occured first in
the Middle East
Once developed, metal tools were preferred over stone tools for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
they were easier for ordinary people to make at home