Why are primary sources important to understanding human history?

They give descriptions of events by a person who lived through them.

Why was the agricultural revolution significant in human history?

People became farmers and no longer had to depend on hunting and gathering

Why did some Paleolithic people in East Africa migrate to other areas between 100,000 and 75,000 years ago?

B The climate became very unstable.

What do the rock paintings of Australia’s Kakadu National Park show?

the Aborigines’ strong connection to the land and nature

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Nat Geo Ancient Civilizations Ch. 1

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1
Which term describes music, language, clothing, and other aspects of human life?
artifacts
culture
government
technology
2
Why are primary sources important to understanding human history?
They provide historians’ interpretations of past events.
They are always passed down orally from one generation to the next.
They are based on secondary sources.
They give descriptions of events by a person who lived through them.
3
What is one theory about why megafauna became extinct about 11,000 years ago?
Humans stopped hunting these animals.
Food and water became scarce due to a drought.
The Ice Age started to end.
The climate suddenly became colder.
4
Why was the agricultural revolution significant in human history?
People began living as nomads to travel to better climates.
People began living in smaller family groups and depending less on others.
People became farmers and no longer had to depend on hunting and gathering
People learned to work together to kill large animals.
5
Why did some Paleolithic people in East Africa migrate to other areas between 100,000 and 75,000 years ago?
Rival groups drove them out
Farmland became increasingly scarce.
B The climate became very unstable.
The sea level was rising.
6
What do the rock paintings of Australia’s Kakadu National Park show?
how the Aborigines migrated to other lands
the importance of government in Aborigines’ lives
grasslands that are now deserts
the Aborigines’ strong connection to the land and nature
7
Which of the following is an important way that hunter-gatherers got food?
raising animals such as goats
growing vegetables
making flour from wheat
gathering fruits and nuts
8
What is an example of a technology that Paleolithic people developed?
living in small family groups with many relatives
burying their dead with certain rituals
using fire to cook food
hunting for wild berries and nuts
9
Which of the following is an artifact?
spear point made of stone
petrified tree branch
fossilized skull of a homonin
footprint of a chimpanzee
10
Paleolithic people’s tools were made of what material?
bronze
iron
stone
glass

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