The first step in the domestication of plants, most likely was...

choosing seeds from the biggest and best-tasting plants

a worker who is especially skilled in crafting items by hand

What does it mean to domesticate a plant or animal?

adapt a wild animal for human use

written and other recorded events of people

supplying water through a network of canals

study of the Earth's surface & the processes that shape it

Why did the Ancient Egyptian civilization begin on the banks of the Nile river?

Regular flooding resulted in rich soil for farming

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Unit 1 - The Beginnings of Human Society Review

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A #socialstudies #blindquiz to review The Ancient World Unit 1

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1
Which was an important advance that took place 500,000 to 1,400,000 years ago?
domestication of animals
learning how to use fire
learning to hunt in large groups
learning what seeds would grow
2
Stories passed down through generations by word of mouth are called...
myths
oral traditions
legends
history
3
Bonus: The Old Stone Age is also called?
The Bronze Age
The Paleolithic Period
The Neolithic Period
The Flinstonic Period
4
____ are an example of evidence that a group of people ate birds and small animals
large spear points
stone hammer and chisels
bones and small arowheads
clothing made of grass and feathers
5
The first step in the domestication of plants, most likely was...
choosing seeds from the biggest and best-tasting plants
cooking the plants instead of eating them raw
taming wild plants and eating their seeds
planting seeds
6
How did farming change the way early people lived?
They got fat.
They didn't change, they remained nomads.
The settled in one place.
They stopped eating meat.
7
What kind of scientists study life in the past by relying on clues other than written records
linguists
geographers
historians
archaeologists
8
_______ is one characteristic of a civilization of the ancient world.
a system of hunting
cars you "drive" with your feet
small, rural towns
social classes
9
Almost all of human prehistory took place in the...
New Stone Age
Gilded Age
Copper Age
Old Stone Age
10
An artisan is
a worker who is especially skilled in crafting items by hand
a tribal leader
a person skilled in the art of trading goods and objects
an object made by a human being
11
What did people do for the first time in the New Stone Age?
gather plants and seeds
trade with other countries
farm the land
search for new lands
12
Nomads are people who...
farm the land
have no settled home
wear brightly colored robes
Breed and domesticate camels and sheep
13
Written records studied by historians often begin as...
religious objects
art works
exagerrations
oral traditions
14
What does it mean to domesticate a plant or animal?
learn to live with wild animals without harming each other
Use a wild plant or animal for food
adapt a wild animal for human use
capture a wild animal for its fur or wool
15
During the New Stone Age, farming settlements needed ______ in order to develop into cities.
a nearby deposit of minerals
a dependable source of water
a strong group of warriors to defend their settlement
metal tools
16
Surplus food during the New Stone Age allowed more people to become...
artisans
warriors
tribe leaders
farmers
17
In the ancient world, a __ would have most likely spread new ideas & tools across civilizations
artisan
trader
farmer
warrior
18
Rapid population growth was a result of ____ during the New Stone Age
better medical practices
better tools
surplus food
trading with other countries
19
Bonus: Mrs. Hatch was born in
The Middle Ages
The Atomic Period
The Neolithic Period
The Post-Modern Period
20
The suffix pre means
not
toward
before
after
21
Which period (age) did hominids, incl. modern humans, make lasting tools mostly from stone?
Stone Age
Flint Stone Age
Bronze Age
Hominid Age
22
Bonus: The New Stone Age is also called?
The Neolithic Period
The Flinstonic Period
The Bronze Age
The Paleolithic Period
23
History is the
the period of time before the written records
transmission of information by word of mouth
the study of humans through excavation & analysis of sites
written and other recorded events of people
24
Irrigation is
planting to take advantage of seasonal rains or floods
supplying water through a network of canals
farming near the extra water provided by a river
purposefully bothering or annoying someone
25
The people in the Old Stone Age got their food by hunting animals and...
selling them as meat
domesticating them
farming the land
gathering wild plants
26
Geography is the
examination of objects & artifacts to learn about the past
study of the Earth's surface & the processes that shape it
study of rocks & how they are formed
written and recorded events of people
27
Approximately when did people in Southwest Asia and Africa develop systems of writing?
10,000 years ago
5,000 years ago
25,000 years ago
from the dawn of time
28
Why did the Ancient Egyptian civilization begin on the banks of the Nile river?
There was an abundance of valuable and tasty crocodile meat
Regular flooding resulted in rich soil for farming
The Euphrates river was too far for Egyptians to travel too.
Egyptians' oral traditions identified it as their homeland

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