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Prehistory (Unit 4) 6th grade
Contributed by: Cambon
  • 1. The most important technique that historians use to learn about prehistoric people is...
A) biology
B) archaeology
C) history
D) geology
  • 2. Our species is
A) Homo Erectus
B) Homo Habilis
C) Homo Sapiens
D) Homo Neanderthalensis
  • 3. Prehistory begins with the...
A) Extinction of the dinasours
B) first living thing
C) first human being
D) invention of writing
  • 4. Prehistory ends with the
A) extinction of Neanderthals
B) invention of writing
C) fall of the Roman Empire
D) first human beings
  • 5. The Stone Age is divided into
A) Palaeolithic and Neolithic
B) The Stone Age and the Metal Age
C) Bronze and Iron Age
  • 6. The controlled use of fire, domestication of dogs and the invention of boats, were discoveries of the...
A) Neolithic people
B) Iron Age people
C) Bronze age people
D) Paleolithic people
  • 7. In this period, humans used more sophisticated tools made of polished stones.
A) Metal age
B) Neolithic period
C) Paleolithic period
  • 8. In this period, the most important advance was farming.
A) Bronze age
B) Paleolithic period
C) Neolithic period
D) Iron age
  • 9. These people invented the wheel, the plough and the pottery wheel.
A) Bronze age people
B) Neolithic
C) Paleolithic
  • 10. The first metal which was widely used by humans was...
A) copper
B) tin
C) iron
D) bronze
  • 11. When copper became scarce, people started to use another metal:
A) iron
B) tin
C) gold
D) bronze
  • 12. This species existed at the same time that Homo Sapiens, and then it became extinct.
A) Homo Erectus
B) Neanderthals
C) Australopithecus
D) Homo Habilis
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