Hilly Flanks

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/hilly-flanks

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the proposed originator of neolithic revolution?Robert Braidwood (1948)
2. What is the environmental advantage?Sufficient natural rainfall for agriculture without irrigation
3. Why did people start farming in the Hilly Flanks?The area gets enough rain, so people didn't need big irrigation, and many wild plants and animals that became crops and livestock lived there.
4. Which crops and animals first grew in the Hilly Flanks?Wheat, barley, einkorn wheat, and animals like sheep and goats were wild there and later domesticated.

Fertile Crescent: A geographically and historically significant region in Southwest Asia characterized by its agricultural potential and role in early civilization development.
Neolithic Revolution: The fundamental transformation in human history marked by the shift from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture and animal domestication.
Domestication: The process by which humans selectively breed plants and animals over generations to enhance desirable traits for human use.
Progenitors: The ancestral wild species from which domesticated plants and animals are descended.