“Ancient Survivor” Quiz



“Ancient Survivor” Study Guide Name_____KEY____________

Here’s your chance to show everything you learned after playing the “Ancient Survivor” game. Please complete the following sentences using the words from the word box below. You will not use all of the words.

Tigris food 1,000 Nile nomads

Amazon flooding domesticate hunting wheat

water agriculture livestock shelter gathering

10,000 Euphrates maize surplus fences

barley walls farm division of labor fertile

1. The three most important things people from early civilizations needed to survive were ________food________, ________water__________, and _________shelter_______.

2. Some of the earliest civilizations began near the ________Tigris_______ and ______Euphrates_______ Rivers.

3. At first, people lived in small bands and depended only on ___hunting____ and ____gathering_____ to get all of their food. But about _____10,000________ years ago, when the food started to become scarce, they had to ________farm_________ to provide enough food.

4. The people learned to ______domesticate_______, or tame, plants and animals to be used for food. The raising of tame plants and food is called ________agriculture______.

5. The first two crops that were grown were probably _____wheat_____ and _____barley_____.

6. Eventually, people had a __surplus__, or extra supply, of food and not everyone

had to farm anymore. They developed a ____division of labor______ and people no

longer all had to look for food.

7. There were, however, some disadvantages that came with the development of agriculture. ____nomads___, or people with no settled homes, often tried stealing

the food, so ____walls_____ had to be built around entire villages to protect their

crops and livestock.

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