Chapter 1 - The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

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South Africa

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

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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.

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Stonehenge

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

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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.

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Çatal Hu ̈yu ̈k

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

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The Nile

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

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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.

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