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Producing Food Forming Complex Societies Building Communities Time Lines and Elevation Maps

Row 1, Col 1 Periods with little or no rain. What are droughts?

1,2 Ways to move water to land. What is irrigation?

1,3 People who sold goods they had bought from traders. What are merchants?

1,4 Farming develops in many places around the world in this year. What is 6000 B.C.?

2,1 The knowledge of raising plants and animals. What is agriculture?

2,2 Another word for trading. What is bartering?

2,3 An organized system of leaders and laws. What is government?

2,4 Lines that illustrate elevation levels. What are contour lines?

3,1 Farming method that cleared areas of trees and brush, burned the trees and mixed the ashes with the soil to fertilize it, and finally plant crops. What is slash-and-burn farming?

3,2 Type of farming formed in China by cutting steps of flat land into the sides of hills and mountains. What is terrace farming?

3,3 Two characteristics of a civilization. What are government and religion?

3,4 Year that farmers in southern Asia grow cotton What is 5000 B.C.?

4,1 People tamed animals for their own uses. What is domesticate?

4,2 People that did not settle down to live in villages, but to live as nomads with herds of animals. What are pastoral societies?

4,3 Caused social classes to develop. What is the division of labor?

4,4 Map that shows differences in the height or depth of hills, valleys, and other physical features. What is a Relief Map?

5,1 Some of the first crops that early farmers raised. What are rye, barley, and einkorn?

5,2 A volcanic glass used by the people of Catal Huyuk for trading. What is obsidian?

5,3 Two early towns of the Fertile Crescent region of southwestern Asia. What are Jericho and Catal Huyuk?

5,4 Consists of multiple time lines covering the same period of time, but for a different person or place. What is a parallel time line?