Chapter 2 Flashcards
When the water receded it left behind a bed or what?
silt
What is the name of the arc of land that provided some of the best farming in Southwest Asia?
Fertile Cresent
Which of the following had predicable flooding?
a. Mesopotamia
b. Egypt
c. Indus Valley
b. Egypt
What did a surplus of food alow the Mesopotamians to do?
allowed villages to grow & city-states grew prosperous and allowed increase in long-distance trade
What to items did the Mesopotanians invent that helped farming?
the wheel & plow
Why did the Egyptians have such a positive outlook on life?
nature was in there favor; approached life more confidently & optimistically because they river was predicable
What helped the Indus Valley with invators?
the mountains and the desert
Indus Valley Civilization’s cites were like…
they were highly planned cities with plumbing and sewage systems
What was different about the Indus Vally’s written language?
it is impossible to decipher
