Why farming changed everything: villages, surplus and specialists

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Two early farming towns

   Place	Dated to	Farming	Homes and work
   Çatalhöyük, central Türkiye	from about 7100 BCE, for more than 1,400 years	several kinds of domesticated wheat; cattle and sheep kept in pens	mud-brick houses packed together, entered through the roof; obsidian toolmaking
   Mehrgarh, Balochistan, Pakistan	7000 BCE or 5250 BCE (scholars disagree)	mostly barley, some wheat; zebu cattle domesticated there	a mud-brick farming village

2. 1.

   Which town's crops were mostly barley, Ren asks?

   • Both towns equally
   • Mehrgarh
   • Neither town
   • Çatalhöyük
3. 2.

   Which town was settled first, Tala asks?

   • Mehrgarh, by about 100 years
   • Çatalhöyük, under either date for Mehrgarh
   • They began in the same year
   • We can't tell, since one date is debated
4. 3.

   Why does the chart give two dates for Mehrgarh, Zee asks?

   • The chart has a spelling mistake
   • It was settled twice by the same family
   • Scholars disagree about when it began
   • It began in exactly 7000 BCE
5. 4.

   At Çatalhöyük, archaeologists found animal pens and dung with cattle and sheep remains. Which claim fits, Bo asks?

   • People kept and managed some animals
   • People kept no animals
   • Pens show the town sold meat abroad
   • The animals there were fully tame, like pets
6. 5.

   Mehrgarh's barley and zebu cattle were domesticated there, but its wheat probably came from farther west. Which claim fits, Esme asks?

   • Mehrgarh copied its farming from the western lands, unchanged
   • Mehrgarh taught farming to Çatalhöyük
   • Mehrgarh grew no crops
   • Some farming began there, and some came from the west
7. 6.

   Obsidian toolmaking was a major industry at Çatalhöyük. What does that suggest, Jun asks?

   • The town grew no crops
   • Tools grew in the fields
   • Some people spent their time making tools
   • Toolmakers were the rulers of the whole town
8. 7.

   Çatalhöyük's houses were packed so tightly that the rooftops worked as streets. Why go in through the roof, Kira asks?

   • Rooftops stayed dry when it rained
   • Roofs kept wild herds out
   • There were no streets between the houses
   • Front doors were not yet invented
9. 8.

   Çatalhöyük grew several kinds of wheat, which helped protect food supplies against crop failure. Why grow several kinds, Luz asks?

   • To feed wild animals
   • Because one kind was not edible
   • If one kind failed, others might still grow
   • To sell each kind to Mehrgarh
10. 9.

    Noah's note says, "Çatalhöyük had wide streets between its houses." Which fix is right?

    • Change "wide" to "stone"
    • Change it: the rooftops worked as streets
    • Leave it: towns have streets
    • Change "houses" to "tents"
11. 10.

    Pia's note says, "Mehrgarh's farmers grew mostly wheat." Which fix is right?

    • Change "wheat" to "barley"
    • Change "farmers" to "hunters"
    • Change "Mehrgarh" to "Jericho"
    • Leave it: wheat came from the west