Chapter 1 - The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

South Africa

Known as Australopithecines, they flourished in East and ________ and were the first hominids to make simple stone tools.

system of irrigation

A(n) ________ enabled early Chinese civilization to maintain a prosperous farming society ruled by an aristocratic class whose major concern was war.

Stonehenge

________ consists of a series of concentric rings of standing stones.

Homo Erectus

________ made use of larger and more varied tools and was the first hominid to leave Africa and move into both Europe and Asia.

Çatal Hu ̈yu ̈k

One of the oldest and most extensive agricultural villages was ________, located in modern-day Turkey.

The Nile

________ is a unique river, beginning in the heart of Africa and coursing northward for thousands of miles.

Egyptian civilization

________ consequently tended to remain more rural, with many small population centers congregated along a narrow band on both sides of the Nile. Even today, most of ________ is crowded along the banks of the Nile River.