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WH: Ch. 1 Foundations of Civilization
What is believing in many gods?
What mean "handy man"?
WH: Ch. 1 Foundations of Civilization
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What mean "handy man"?
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
Homo scorpion
Homo habilis
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What is believing in many gods?
animism
polytheistic
prehistory
monotheistic
3
What is the name of the era where people went from nomads to farmers?
Cultural diffusion
Old Stone Age
Neanderthals
Neolithic Period
4
What is the ancient village in modern-day Israel?
Jericho
Catalhuyuk
Tanzania
Olduvai Gorge
5
What is the spread of ideas, and customs from one place to another?
civilization
drifting
cultural diffusion
nomadic behavior
6
What is a person who studies how people lived in the past?
historians
anthropologist
archaeologist
scribes
7
What landform did the Leakeys find many artifacts from the first civilizations?
Catalhuyuk
Olduvai Gorge
Mount Everest
Africa
8
He was born in Kenya to English parents and made important archaeological discoveries in Africa
Lucy
Donald Johanson
Mary Leakey
Louis Leakey
9
What was the earliest groups of hominids called, including Lucy?
Homo sapiens
australopithecines
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
10
What is a sparse, dry treeless grassland?
steppe
farmland
gorge
empire
11
What are the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs?
culture
artifacts
technology
surplus
12
What is to tame plants and animals for human use?
technology
civilize
traditional economy
domesticate
13
What era lasted from 2 million BC to 10,000 BC?
Paleolithic Period
New Stone Age
Old Stone Age
Neolithic Revolution
14
What is a complex highly organized social order?
culture
society
hierarchy
civilization
15
What is the name of the group that came after
Homo habilis
that is extinct?
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Homo erectus
Homo scorpion
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What is the belief that spirits and forces live within animals, objects, or dreams?
polytheism
animism
prehistory
culture
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What is the period of time before writing was invented?
Neolithic Era
history
prehistoric
prehistory
18
What is an amount that is more than needed?
shortage
surplus
deficit
artisans
19
What is an object made by human beings?
technology
carbon-dating
artisan
artifact
20
What is the ancient city found in modern-day Turkey?
Catalhuyuk
Jericho
Olduvai Gorge
Tanzania
21
What is the way of life of a group of people passed down through generations?
city-state
technology
culture
anthropology
22
What name was given to the earliest hominid skeleton found?
Maurice
Mary
Lucy
George
23
What does it mean to control groups of states or territories under one ruler?
city-state
culture
empire
anthropology
24
What group of
Homo sapiens
went extinct?
australopithecines
Homo habilis
Neanderthals
nomads
25
What is another name for the Neolithic Period?
New Stone Age
Empire period
Paleolithic Period
Old Stone Age
26
What is a skilled crafts person?
nomad
artisan
scribes
animism
27
Modern humans are in what group?
Homo erectus
australopithecines
Homo sapiens
Neanderthals
28
In what modern-day country have we found artifacts from the first civilizations?
Tanzania
Israel
Turkey
Egypt
29
Her artistic talents made her useful rebuilding artifacts on archaeological digs.
Donald Johanson
Lucy
Mary Leakey
Louis Leakey
30
What is a person specially trained to read, write, and keep records?
scribe
historian
nomad
emperor
31
He discovered Lucy
Donald Johanson
Lucy
Louis Leakey
Mary Leakey
32
What is a person who studies the past, mainly through culture and language?
historian
anthropologist
professor
archaeologist
33
What is a person who moves from place to place is search of food?
archaeologist
farmers
nomad
Bedouin
34
What is the study of people and culture using their material remains?
archaeology
excavation
carbon-dating
anthropology
35
What is a simple drawing that looks like the object it represents?
pictographs
hieroglyphics
steppe
scribes
36
What is the name of the transition from nomads to farmers?
Neolithic Revolution
Old Stone Age
Neolithic Period
Paleolithic Period
37
What is a political unit that includes a city and its surrounding land?
city-state
traditional economy
nation
empire
38
What is another name for the Paleolithic Period?
Neolithic Revolution
New Stone Age
Neolithic Period
Old Stone Age
39
What continent have we found the earliest hominids on?
Africa
Europe
Asia
North America
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What is a type of economy that relies on habit and custom and does not change over time?
culture
traditional economy
civilization
nomads