Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter Review

Human migration began in eastern Africa, where remains of the earliest types of human remains were found to originate. Gradual migration was caused by the need to find scarce food and slowly caused the spread of the human population across to the Americas and Australia.

Agricultural societies first emerged in the middle east. Since population was increasing, it encouraged people to find a more reliable food source and since the ice age had come to an end, it brought the retreat of certain big game animals such as mastodons

Settled and built houses
 Civilization first arose in egypt, mesopotamia, indus river basin, and china. Characteristics included cities, government, religion, writing, art, and social structure.
10,000 B.C.E

Africa appears to be the home of humans and their near relatives because the human populations originated in this area.

Human remains such as bones and artifacts provide evidence that verifies that man migrated to the Americas and Australia.

Map 1.2:The Spread of Agriculture

The middle east seems to be the most important core are for agriculture because it spread its agriculture to many more regions than any other core area of agriculture.
 The area that had the greater advancements had originated the spread of agriculture to the other areas surrounding it.
 Beans and yams had two different areas of first cultivation.

Bananas, rice, and yams arrived in Africa when people from other parts migrated and spread their culture to those parts of
Began after the abandonment of hunting and gathering

Cities in the ancient agrarian civilizations were _______. C. Independent of the local regional economies.

7. In river valley societies priest developed considerable social power because they _____. A. Controlled agriculture

Which of these is an example of patriarchal society in the ancient world? E. After marriage, a woman moved to the residence of her husband’s family.

9. Periodic nomadic invasions in the early history of the Middle East _______.
 E. Failed to upset the established political and social patters of the region.
 The Fertile Crescent has been called the crossroads of the world because it was __.
 D. On the routes connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa.

11. Unlike Sumer and Egypt, the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization _______.
 D. Never developed a military social class.

12. Compared to river valley cultures in Egypt and Mesopotamia, Chinese civilization ______. A. Probably developed after civilizations in the Nile Valley and Southwest Asia.
 The aryan invaders of the Indus Valley ______.
 C. Are related to Indo-Europeans and