Chapter 1 Toward Civilization Review

Question 1

Why is geography important to history?

Accepted Answer

shows connections between people and places

Question 2

The earliest period of human history is called?

Accepted Answer

Old Stone Age

Question 3

How do historians help us learn about the past?

Accepted Answer

They collect, evaluate and interpret written evidence

Question 4

The skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs is called ?

Accepted Answer

technology

Question 5

Which of the following is a feature of early civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Cities

Question 6

The belief in many gods?

Accepted Answer

polytheism

Question 7

How do archeologists find out about early people?

Accepted Answer

digging for artifacts

Question 8

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

Accepted Answer

People settled and began farming

Question 9

One of the key features of early civilizations?

Accepted Answer

City

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a theme of geography?

Accepted Answer

People

Question 11

This period began when people gave up nomading and settled down to farm.

Accepted Answer

The New Stone Age

Question 12

What evidence suggests that early people believed in the afterlife?

Accepted Answer

They buried their dead with great care

Question 13

What marked the beginning of civilization?

Accepted Answer

Creation of Farming Villages

Question 14

The study of the life of early people through the examination of artifacts is?

Accepted Answer

archeology

Question 15

What characterized the New Stone Age?

Accepted Answer

People established farming villages

Question 16

Where did the first cities emerge?

Accepted Answer

In river valleys

Question 17

Which of the following aided cultural diffusion among ancient peoples?

Accepted Answer

trade

Question 18

These people move from place to place in search of migrating animals and rippening fruit

Accepted Answer

nomads

Question 19

The spreading of ideas, customes and technologies is called?

Accepted Answer

Cultural diffusion

Question 20

Which belief was probably held by the Stone Age people?

Accepted Answer

the afterlife

Question 21

Skilled craftworkers who made pottery or finely carved wooden goods.

Accepted Answer

Artisans

Question 22

What does a historian do?

Accepted Answer

Study written evidence about the past

Question 23

What caused ancient civilizations to change?

Accepted Answer

contact with other people

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