The Ubaid farmers of Mesopotamia are associated with:
a. the initial period of agriculture in the Near East
b. the settlement of the alluvial plains along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
c. the development of the first cities in India
d. the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
e. the adoption of dry-farming techniques in the Upper Euphrates valley
Question 2
What common factor does Bruce Trigger propose all early civilizations share?
a. comparable periods of environmental change
b. the presence of increasingly limited access to information
c. the need to manage increasingly complex societies through political and administrative institutions
d. all early civilizations emerged in the same basic type of environment
e. less top-down management