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What letter is Sumer?
D
B
E
F
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Archaeologists find out about early peoples by
Studying old photographs
digging to find artifacts
going to museums
reading historical novels
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basic characteristics of civilization
a social ranking according to jobs
a culture
a traditional economy
a nomadic lifestyle
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describes people who believe in many gods
animism
pictographs
polytheistic
anthropology
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What letter is Egypt?
H
I
F
D
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The spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another
glacier
Old Stone Age
archaeology
cultural diffusion
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The top social class in ancient societies
artisans
priests and nobles
famers
merchants
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One difference between early modern humans and Neanderthals is that early modern humans
walked upright.
lived mostly in Europe and western Asia.
were the first to disappear from Earth.
spread to all parts of the world.
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Old Stone Age people created cave paintings
to communicate
to decorate
as a symbol of wealth
as part of religious rituals.
10
the belief that spirits and forces exist within animals, objects, or dreams
animism
polytheistic
pictographs
technology
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What is the main feature that defines civilization?
farming
religion
governments
cities
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archaeology
the study of past cultures through their remains
a societies way of life
an object made by humans
This term refers to the time before writing.
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Where did the first cities emerge?
along trade routes
in the Americas
along the Mediterranean coast
in river valleys
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A major result of migration, trade, and warfare was
cultural diffusion.
the rise of cities.
the destruction of civilizations.
a transition from nomadic to settled life.
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populations of early villages were able to grow mostly due to
food surpluses.
the availability of jobs
the rise of civilizations.
large amounts of available land
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the Neolithic revolution was
the change from hunting and food-gathering to farming
the movement of people to North America
a war for independence
a rejection of Paleolithic values by Neolithic people
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"Lucy" belonged to the earliest hominid group called
Homo erectus.
Homo habilis.
Neanderthals.
australopithecines.
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A huge sheet of ice
city-state
artifact
glacier
nomad
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Person who moves from place to place in search of food
geographer
nomad
glacier
archaeologist
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A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding land
glacier
nomad
artifact
city-state
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characteristic of the Old Stone Age
tool making
Organized government
written language
farming
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The study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them
histororyology
archaeology
geography
Mathematics
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anthropology
the study of the people's origins & societies
an object made by humans
a societies way of life
someone who studies the past
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What letter is China?
F
D
E
H
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example of an artifact
bones
fossils
rock layers
pottery
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historians help us learn about the past by
digging up artifacts
determining the age of rocks
collecting, evaluating, and interpreting written evidence.
using radioactivity to determine the age of artifacts
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The only hominids still on Earth today are
australopithecines.
Homo sapiens.
Neanderthals.
Homo erectus.
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one of the first Neolithic villages
pictographs
Jericho
anthropology
Philadelphia
29
Tools and weapons found in graves suggest that the people
were polytheistic.
believed in animism
were nomadic.
believed in an afterlife.
30
first to discover enough of a skeleton to provide a good look at an early hominid
formal region
Mary and Louis Leakey
Pangaea
Donald Johansson
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an early step in the development of writing
pictographs
animism
anthropology
polytheistic
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A ruler who conquered many cities and villages created a(n)
culture
city-state
civilization
empire
33
nomadic cultures differed from civilizations because
Nomads had no live stock
Nomads did not build cities.
Nomads did not raise animals.
Nomads did not make jewelry.
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The New Stone Age began when early people learned to
make weapons out of stone.
use fire for cooking.
use tools.
farm.
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Geologists can help archaeologists determine the
diets of the people
way of life of the people
layout of villages
age of the artifacts
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The chipped stones that Mary and Louis Leakey found revealed that early hominids
had learned how to use technology
had learned how to cook
had learned how to hunt
had learned how to domesticate animals
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What letter is the Indus civilization?
J
F
E
D
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the first civilizations in the Americas
built temples.
worshipped a single god.
were nomadic.
developed away from river valleys.
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skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs
longitude
nomad
technology
latitude
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first to use fire?
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
australopithecines
Homo sapiens
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Scribes were valuable to rulers because of the scribes’ skill in
architecture.
metalworking.
reading and writing.
public works.
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discovered evidence at Olduvai Gorge
Mary and Louis Leakey
Donald Johanson
Pangaea
formal region
43
artifact
the study of the people's origins
a societies way of life
an object made by humans
someone who studies the past
