HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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Question
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It was a Paleolithic village.
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It is one of the world’s oldest known settlements.
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It was located in northern Africa.
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It was located in present-day Mexico.
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Detailed explanation-1: -From the evidence found so far, Çatalhöyük was a society of equals. All the houses are similar; no grand structures, temples or public buildings point to a rigid social hierarchy or a central management system. Research also suggests that there was gender parity in terms of nutrition and division of labour.
Detailed explanation-2: -Located near the modern city of Konya in south central Turkey, it was inhabited 9000 years ago by up to 8000 people who lived together in a large town. Çatalhöyük, across its history, witnesses the transition from exclusively hunting and gathering subsistence to increasing skill in plant and animal domestication.
Detailed explanation-3: -Catal Huyuk (pronounced cha-tel hoo-yek, or Çatalhöyük in Turkish) is an archaeological site in what is now south-central Turkey. Along with Jericho, it’s considered one of the oldest cities in the world, dating from almost 7500 BC.
Detailed explanation-4: -Criterion (iii): Çatalhöyük provides a unique testimony to a moment of the Neolithic, in which the first agrarian settlements were established in central Anatolia and developed over centuries from villages to urban centres, largely based on egalitarian principles.
Detailed explanation-5: -Çatalhöyük, across its history, witnesses the transition from exclusively hunting and gathering subsistence to increasing skill in plant and animal domestication. We might see Çatalhöyük as a site whose history is about one of man’s most important transformations: from nomad to settler.
Detailed explanation-6: -Well, at the moment, Çatalhöyük is the first known city in the world – the first place where surrounding villages came together and formed a central location and began the sort of urban civilization that dominates the modern world.
Detailed explanation-7: -The fertile soil of the plain and nearby river also aided in the farming of various crops. Catalhoyuk show that they adopted a settled lifestyle and were no longer nomadic. Materials from the surrounding environment were used in the construction of the permanent structures.