The Beginning of Civilization

Question 1

What revolution occurred that change the way humans lived?

Accepted Answer

Neolithic Revolution

Question 2

The first civilizations arose

Accepted Answer

in fertile river valleys

Question 3

What is the term that describes the situation that occurs when farms have an excess of food?

Accepted Answer

surplus

Question 4

What word refers to society's knowledge, art, beliefs and customs?

Accepted Answer

culture

Question 5

Who were the people who moved from place to place looking for food?

Accepted Answer

nomads

Question 6

Who was the anthropologist who discovered Lucy?

Accepted Answer

Donald Johanson

Question 7

What is a complex culture that contains cities, government, religion, art and social classes?

Accepted Answer

civilizations

Question 8

What factors supported cultural diffusion?

Accepted Answer

trade, migration, and conquest

Question 9

The Bronze Age is remembered for people creating tools out of ?

Accepted Answer

copper and tin

Question 10

What lead to the building of permanent settlements?

Accepted Answer

the development of farming

Question 11

What does the name Homo Erectus mean?

Accepted Answer

upright man

Question 12

What part of the world did people first migrate out of?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 13

What is the term that refers to selective breeding of animals?

Accepted Answer

domestication

Question 14

What was an important development of early Stone Age culture?

Accepted Answer

farming

Question 15

What drove early civilizations to develop permanent records?

Accepted Answer

to record economic transactions

Question 16

What scientific test helped trace our origins?

Accepted Answer

DNA

Question 17

Which group was more likely to contain people of different social status?

Accepted Answer

settled people

Question 18

What were two early groups of modern humans?

Accepted Answer

Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals

Question 19

What are hominids?

Accepted Answer

early human like beings

Question 20

What anthropological discovery in the Alps helped our knowledge of Neolithic societies?

Accepted Answer

Otzi the Iceman

Questions 20