Unit 2: The Fertile Crescent

Question 1

Which people do anthropologists study to observe the movement to sedentary life during the Neolithic Revolution?

Answer 1

The Natufians

Question 2

Where did the Natufians live?

Answer 2

They lived in an area in the Middle East known as the Levant, comprised of the modern-day countries of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Question 3

True or False: The Natufians used to be hunter gatherers

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Anthropologists believe that the Natufians were the first group of people to perform which practices?

Answer 4

Domestication and Farming

Question 5

What allowed for the storage of food and for permanent settlements to grow?

Answer 5

Pottery

Question 6

The development of pottery was a solution to which problems?

Answer 6

A surplus of food and the need for food storage

Question 7

Where do historians believe the first government was established?

Answer 7

Sumer

Question 8

What was cuneiform, developed by the Sumerians, originally intended for?

Answer 8

To keep track of grain totals.

Question 9

How did the development of food storage impact early civilizations?

Answer 9

Food storage provided food stability, which allowed for the population to grow and complex societies to develop.