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1. Describe the physical and social changes brought about by the end of the Younger Dryas

2. Describe the role of women in horticultural societies.

3. Where and why did the switch from hunting/gathering to plant cultivation and animal husbandry occur. What social change happened?

4. What was the role of irrigation in the urban revolution?

5. Sedentary life had some challenges:

    • a. Disease
    • b. property
    • c. security
    • d. economics

6. Explain the causes of the agrarian transformation.

7. Describe the process of the domestication of plants and animals.

8. Identify and explain two other forms of lifeways at this time.

9. Name and explain the distinguishing characteristics of culture. Be sure to include culture's essential feature.

10. What are systems of meaning? What is the purpose of language and art?.

11. Why is culture learned?

12. What important principles follow from the definition of culture given in the manual?

13. What is the first purpose of a myth?

14. Why is mythology a universal need?

15. What is the second purpose of a myth?

16. What role does mythology play in morality of a culture?

17. Define religion and its characteristics, elements and functions in a society?

18. What are some of the problems of complex societies