World History Chapter One

Question 1

A surplus of goods is _________.

Accepted Answer

More than necessary

Question 2

This type of hominid was known to be the first human ancestors that walked upright.

Accepted Answer

homo erectus

Question 3

What scholar studies the past through material remains?

Accepted Answer

Archaeologist

Question 4

Why did civilizations develop near bodies of water?

Accepted Answer

Water had food and gave them fertile soil.

Question 5

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a civilization?

Accepted Answer

animals

Question 6

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies.

Accepted Answer

Cultural diffusion

Question 7

Who discovered Olduvai Gorge?

Accepted Answer

Mary and Louis Leakey

Question 8

To raise plants and animals for humans benefits.

Accepted Answer

Domesticate

Question 9

Which of the following is not an example of what historians use to study the past?

Accepted Answer

Nails

Question 10

Using eggs, fur, and milk from animals was an example of what?

Accepted Answer

domestication

Question 11

What is a nomad?

Accepted Answer

People who travel all the time in search of food and shelter

Question 12

Which group of hominids was nicknamed the handy man?

Accepted Answer

homo habilis

Question 13

When was the first group of hominids discovered?

Accepted Answer

7 million years ago

Question 14

The transition from nomadic life to settled farming that brought dramatic changes.

Accepted Answer

Neolithic Revolution

Question 15

Where did most cities first develop?

Accepted Answer

Rivers

Question 16

The group of hominids known as the modern humans is the ____.

Accepted Answer

homo sapiens

Question 17

Cultural diffusion happened through which three of these major events?

Accepted Answer

migration, trade, and warfare

Question 18

Scholars discovered ___ groups of early human ancestors.

Accepted Answer

4

Question 19

What are the three types of scholars that study the past?

Accepted Answer

anthropologists, archaeologists, historians

Question 20

The time period before written history.

Accepted Answer

Prehistory

Question 21

What is a political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages.

Accepted Answer

City-state

Question 22

A _______ is a complex, highly organized social order.

Accepted Answer

Civilization

Questions 22