# When and Why did People Start Living in Cities? p. 288-304 Define the term for “urban.” (From your textbook-not the internet) 1 Answer: Human communities have existed for 100,000 years, but archaeological evidence indicates that people established the first cities about _______ 2 years ago. Answer: The very early developing agricultural societies were about the same size, and contained about the same number of possessions and sharing of 3 goods. This is considered to be a reflection of what type of lifestyle? Answer: In which region of the world did the first urban development originate? 4 Answer: What are the two components that enabled cities to stabilize and grow? 5 Answer: Answer: What is another word for the urban elite found in the textbook? 6 Answer: What is the term which geographers use for innovation of the city?” “the 7 Answer: List the location of the six urban hearths. 1. 2. 8 3. 4. 5. 6. What structures dominated the urban landscape of the ancient 9 Mesopotamia? Answer: What was the approximate population of Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley? 10 Answer: Urban places in the ancient world were considered a geographical 11 ________ in the overwhelmingly rural world. Answer: Why would Greece be more accurately described as a secondary hearth of 12 urbanization? Answer: What is the meaning and the purpose of the word acropolis? your (From textbook-not the internet) Meaning: 13 Purpose:
# When and Why did People Start Living in Cities? p. 288-304 1 Define the term for “urban.” (From your textbook-not the internet) Answer: 2 Human communities have existed for 100,000 years, but archaeological evidence indicates that people established the first cities about _______ years ago. Answer: 3 The very early developing agricultural societies were about the same size, and contained about the same number of possessions and sharing of goods. This is considered to be a reflection of what type of lifestyle? Answer: 4 In which region of the world did the first urban development originate? Answer: 5 What are the two components that enabled cities to stabilize and grow? Answer: Answer: 6 What is another word for the urban elite found in the textbook? Answer: 7 What is the term which geographers use for “the innovation of the city?” Answer: 8 List the location of the six urban hearths. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9 What structures dominated the urban landscape of the ancient Mesopotamia? Answer: 10 What was the approximate population of Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley? Answer: 11 Urban places in the ancient world were considered a geographical ________ in the overwhelmingly rural world. Answer: 12 Why would Greece be more accurately described as a secondary hearth of urbanization? Answer: 13 What is the meaning and the purpose of the word acropolis? (From your textbook-not the internet) Meaning: Purpose: