Answer the Following Questions

question 58

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions:
-Fertile Crescent

• A)The period after 9000 B.C.E., when people developed agriculture, domesticated animals, and used tools made of stone and wood.
• B)An area of mild climate and abundant wild grain where agriculture first developed, in present-day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.
• C)Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus.
• D)Egyptian funerary manuscripts, written to help guide the dead through the difficulties they would encounter on the way to the afterlife.
• E)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.
• F)The period of human history up to about 9000 B.C.E., when tools were made from stone and bone and people gained their food through foraging.
• G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
• H)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
• I)A large-scale system of human political, economic, and social organizations; such a system has cities, laws, states, and often writing.
• J)The Egyptian belief in a cosmic harmony that embraced truth, justice, and moral integrity; it gave the kings the right and duty to govern.
• K)The period in which the production and use of bronze implements became basic to society.
• L)A society in which most power is held by older adult men, especially those from the elite groups.
• M)An economic system based on herding flocks of goats, sheep, cattle, or other animals beneficial to humans.

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Definitions:

Subspecies

A subdivision within a species, characterized by distinct genetic, morphological, or behavioral traits, often resulting from geographical isolation.

Genus

A rank in the biological classification system (taxonomy) that groups together species that are closely related, sharing a common ancestor.

Species

A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding, classified together as having common characteristics.

Reproductively Isolated

A state in which different groups of organisms can no longer interbreed and produce fertile offspring, leading to speciation.