- 1. What made it possible for agricultural settlement?
A) advances in technology
B) the ability to withstand cold temperatures
C) fertile land from annual flooding
- 2. What are three characteristics of Nomadic herders?
A) seeking, traveling, settling
B) grazing, raising, herding
C) hunting, farming, gathering
- 3. What years did the Mesolithic Era take place?
A) 10,000-8,500 BC
B) 0-1000 BC
C) 12,000-15,000 BC
D) 1,000-5,000 BC
- 4. What continent is believe to be where humans first evolved, and where we have spent the majority of our time on Earth?
A) Asia
B) North America
C) Europe
D) Africa
- 5. What caused the human population drop below 10,000, nearly making us extinct?
A) Pangea
B) Hurricane
C) Meteor
D) Ice Age
- 6. What years did the Paleolithic Era take place?
A) 70,000-12,000 BC
B) 12,000-15,000 BC
C) 10,000-8,500 BC
D) 1,000-5,000 BC
- 7. What years did the Neolithic Era take place?
A) 0-1000 AD
B) 70,000-12,000 BC
C) 9,000-1,800 BC
D) 10,000-8,500 BC
- 8. In a hunter-gatherer society what roles did the males play?
A) cook
B) herd
C) gather fruits
D) hunt & build
- 9. In a hunter-gatherer society what roles did the women play?
A) guard the homes
B) hunt and build
C) gathered fruits, prepared meals, took care of children.
- 10. What caused a huge shift in society during the Neolithic Era?
A) domestication of plants and animals
B) better hunting stategies
C) cleaner lifestyles
D) migration
- 11. Approximately what year did irrigation begin?
A) 1,000 BC
B) 6,000 BC
C) 10,000 BC
D) 70,000 BC
- 12. Explain how the first hunter-gatherer societies and the first farming societies are similar and different.
- 13. What was the life expectancy of early hunter-gatherers?
A) 70 yrs
B) 30 yrs
C) 50 yrs
D) 10 yrs
- 14. Why did early humans migrate and settle throughout the world?
A) to plant new crops
B) for fun
C) to find water routes
D) to follow animal migration & look for new land
- 15. An ___________ studys prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments
A) paleantologist
B) historian
C) geographer
D) archaeologist
- 16. Explain a pastoral society
- 17. A ______________ is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another, mainly following animal migration.
A) nomad
B) settler
C) hunter-gatherer
- 18. Why did the use of agriculture contribute to the huge population growth during after 10,000 B.C.E.?
A) the discovery of medicine
B) disease from animals
C) humans sustained a diet
- 19. The ______________ was the transition from hunter-gatherer to cultivation.
A) pastoral era
B) agricultural revolution
C) migration theory
- 20. Why did early humans create cave art?
- 21. Why did population rise due to the domestication of plants and animals?
A) more calories, meant more people to be fed
B) people became better hunters
C) people found new homes
- 22. The oldest stone tools of Paleolithic societies consisted of
A) hammers and knives
B) nails, wheels and firestarters
C) hammerstones, cores and handaxes
D) bows and arrows
- 23. Around 10,000 BCE, What two discoveries revolutionized human society?
A) hunting and fishing
B) clothing and housing
C) war and conquest
D) farming and herding
- 24. What new discoveries transformed permanent settlements into civilizations?
A) witchcraft and religion
B) bronze and writing
C) huning and fishing
D) gold and silver
- 25. What made it possible for early humans to ingest cattle milk?
A) they learned to process milk
B) cattle were not bred in family
C) they drank it regularly
D) a mutation of lactose tolerance
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