Video 7 Examples of 2 4th millennium BC Neolithic Cultures

Question 1

Who built the megalithic tombs of the Hunebeds?

Answer 1

The TRB

Question 2

What culture built huge settlements, housing thousands of people?

Answer 2

Tripolye-Cucuteni culture

Question 3

TRB culture full name

Answer 3

Trichterbecherk culture, Funnel Beaker Culture

Question 4

What did the TRB develop from?

Answer 4

Contacts between hunters and farmers in the north zone of Europe

Question 5

During what phase of Neolithisation did the TRB develop?

Answer 5

Third

Question 6

Where was the TRB culture?

Answer 6

North of Netherlands, South of Scandinavia, Poland

Question 7

TRB culture pottery

Answer 7

Sometimes funnel-like tops

Question 8

When was the TRB culture?

Answer 8

3800-2800 BCE

Question 9

Where did the TRB culture emerge?

Answer 9

Scandinavia

Question 10

What were Hunebedden originally used for

Answer 10

Burials dozens of remains

Question 11

TRB settlements

Answer 11

Small, two-aisled houses. Settlement consisted of one or two of them

Question 12

Two important new inventions when the TRB existed

Answer 12

1. The wheel

2. Plough

Question 13

When did the wheel appear in Europe?

Answer 13

3300 BCE

Question 14

Why is it possible that the wheel was independently invented by European communities?

Answer 14

It appeared around the same time in Europe and the Near East

Question 15

What does the invention of the wheel imply

Answer 15

Infrastructure

Question 16

Why was the invention of the plough important?

Answer 16

Now possible to better mix soil and plant seeds on soils that er not that fertile

Question 17

Where was the Tripolye-Cucuteni culture

Answer 17

East Romania, Moldavia, Ukraine

Question 18

What was special about the Tripolye-Cucuteni culture?

Answer 18

People of this culture sometimes lived in extraordinary large settlements

Question 19

How big were some Tripolye-Cucuteni settlements?

Answer 19

Some consisted of hundreds, and in a few cases thousands, of houses

Question 20

What is the Tripolye-Cucuteni site, Talianki, estimated to have been able to house?

Answer 20

20,000 people

Question 21

To what culture does the site Talianki belong to?

Answer 21

The Tripolye-Cucuteni culture

Question 22

From when is Talianki?

Answer 22

c. 3400 BCE

Question 23

When do the huge settlement disappear from prehistoric Europe?

Answer 23

3rd millennium BCE