WHAP 2012
Acorn Packet – Review Questions: Packet 1 – Foundations and Classical Eras
Technological and Environmental transformations and the Organization and reorganization of human societies 8000 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.
Answer each part of each question below as thoroughly as possible using your textbook, chapter outlines, review books, and class work.
1. How did the use of fire/tools change civilization? Describe the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies.
-The rise of writing in cuneiform tablets used for communicating with messages and records during 3500 B.C.E. starting in the Middle East improved peoples’ communication. Invention of the wheel improved transportation; metalworking starting in the Bronze Age improved agricultural/herding societies (other metal tools, hoes, allowed farmers to work the ground more efficiently); Fire helped people stay warm in colder climates, for protection, and hunting;
-Hunting and gathering dominated human history until 9000 B.C.E.; helped to spread migration over most of earth; the first human economy, mainly used agriculture; gathered meat, fruits, and plants;
2. The Neolithic Revolution and the nature of early agricultural societies
a. Identify and analyze changes at least five key changes that result from more complex social structures and economic systems that emerge following the Neolithic Revolution.
-Agriculture supported larger populations and had better food supplies, so people could afford to build houses/villages; development of villages; agriculture contributed to greater wealth and larger populations, which made new ideas/techniques for their civilization; the first wheel made around 6000 B.C.E. encouraged faster/higher quality production of pottery; invention of writing as a way of communicating and recordkeeping; discovery of metal tools (4000 B.C.E.) improved agricultural societies; increased population; reliable food supply.
b. Assess the transformation of human societies with the rise of agricultural
Technological and Environmental transformations and the Organization and reorganization of human societies 8000 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.
Answer each part of each question below as thoroughly as possible using your textbook, chapter outlines, review books, and class work.
1. How did the use of fire/tools change civilization? Describe the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies.
-The rise of writing in cuneiform tablets used for communicating with messages and records during 3500 B.C.E. starting in the Middle East improved peoples’ communication. Invention of the wheel improved transportation; metalworking starting in the Bronze Age improved agricultural/herding societies (other metal tools, hoes, allowed farmers to work the ground more efficiently); Fire helped people stay warm in colder climates, for protection, and hunting;
-Hunting and gathering dominated human history until 9000 B.C.E.; helped to spread migration over most of earth; the first human economy, mainly used agriculture; gathered meat, fruits, and plants;
2. The Neolithic Revolution and the nature of early agricultural societies
a. Identify and analyze changes at least five key changes that result from more complex social structures and economic systems that emerge following the Neolithic Revolution.
-Agriculture supported larger populations and had better food supplies, so people could afford to build houses/villages; development of villages; agriculture contributed to greater wealth and larger populations, which made new ideas/techniques for their civilization; the first wheel made around 6000 B.C.E. encouraged faster/higher quality production of pottery; invention of writing as a way of communicating and recordkeeping; discovery of metal tools (4000 B.C.E.) improved agricultural societies; increased population; reliable food supply.
b. Assess the transformation of human societies with the rise of agricultural