Module 1 Exam Ancient Origins

Question 1

Which definition of the time BCE is correct?

Accepted Answer

Before Common Era

Question 2

Which best describes a historian's job?

Accepted Answer

to come up with theories about the past

Question 3

What does the term Specialization mean

Accepted Answer

development of more specific work tasks

Question 4

Religious beliefs developed in civilizations because people did not have to worry as much about

Accepted Answer

supplying their basic needs

Question 5

Which landforms was most likely to limit the interaction between two prehistoric groups?

Accepted Answer

mountains

Question 6

What description best describes latitude or east-west lines?

Accepted Answer

Lines are parallel-measure distance N & S of the equator.

Question 7

Which of the following dates could be placed in spot C on the timeline?

Accepted Answer

11 CE, 200 CE

Question 8

Which statement best describes the contact that prehistoric clans had with one another?

Accepted Answer

It was limited by weather, landforms, and seasons.

Question 9

All of the following innovations allowed people to locate farms away from water sources except

Accepted Answer

wooden plows

Question 10

Which describes how early humans used wind and solar power for the same purpose?

Accepted Answer

to heat their homes in the winter months

Question 11

Which of the following is the most influential factor that led to the Neolithic Revolution?

Accepted Answer

domestication of animals and plants

Question 12

Why does the discovery of Lucy and Ardi make m. scientists think that humans started in Africa?

Accepted Answer

Lucy and Ardi are the oldest human ancestors found so far.

Question 13

Which of the following is the most influential factor that led to the Neolithic Revolution?

Accepted Answer

domestication of animals and plants

Question 14

What can historians learn from this cave painting?

Accepted Answer

the types of animals that lived in the region during this period

Question 15

Which of the following describes the characteristics of the best location for an ancient settlement to thrive?

Accepted Answer

animals, a river, fertile soil

Question 16

Once a civilization had a surplus of food, it could support which of the following?

Accepted Answer

a growing population

Question 17

Which of the following groups were small and relatively simple to govern?

Accepted Answer

clans

Question 18

What type of social science does a map showing silt left by the flooding of the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

Geography

Question 19

In the chart above, which of the following fits the missing information

Accepted Answer

Built shelters out of mud brick and other materials

Question 20

Which is not an example of early people adapting agricultural methods to physical landscape?

Accepted Answer

soil erosion

Question 21

Which of the following explained how the development of bronze products led to the growth of society?

Accepted Answer

New products allowed people to build stronger buildings (keep out the enemy, Bronze tools very rare and an importan for trade in certain civilizations.

Question 22

Which of the following best describes the location of the first river valley civilizations?

Accepted Answer

locations ideal for trade natural defenses to prevent attack

Question 23

Of the following statements, which best describes the lives of nomadic hunter-gatherers?

Accepted Answer

Tools and shelter made to carry when the clans moved around.

Question 24

How did the development of bronze products led to the growth of society?

Accepted Answer

Bronze tools were very rare and good for trade, Soldiers protect the society with weapons made of bronze.

Question 25

Which statement below does not show bias?

Accepted Answer

Rubies are valuable gems.

Question 26

Which of the following statements about early human migration is true?

Accepted Answer

HM patterns were affected by weather patterns (the Ice Age).

Module 1 Exam Ancient Origins

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Module 1 Exam Ancient Origins

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