Identify shared characteristics of settlements in europe, anatolia, the aegean, the americas, and africa between 5000 and 2000 bce.

Answer;

Similarities;

-All did not live on river basins

-Aegean, Anatolia and Europe all buried their royals with jewelry, personal items or weapons.

-Europe, Africa and Americas traded goods

-American and Sub Saharan had egalitarian societies based on hunting and gathering and basic agriculture.

Explanation;

-Towns emerged and agriculture advanced, but not with the leaps and bounds of the great river-basin civilizations.

-The Aegean, Anatolia, and Europe had a distinctive warrior-based ethos. Settlements in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa were smaller and remained based around agriculture.

-The inhabitants moved beyond stone implements and hunting and gathering, but they remained more egalitarian than river basin people.