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Duplicate of Prehistory to Civilization
Duplicate of Prehistory to Civilization
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1
What is the term for the New Stone Age?
Modern Age
Neolithic Age
Domesticate
Paleolithic Age
2
What is the period of time before people invented writing systems?
posthistory
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
prehistory
3
Which of the following statements does NOT describe life in the Old Stone Age?
Paleolithic people lived in hunting & food-gathering groups
Paleolithic people made their own crops & stayed in place.
They were dependent on their environment for survival.
Paleolithic people go from place to place following animals.
4
People who specialized in jobs and became skilled craftworkers were known as...
artisans
nobles
priests
peasant farmers
5
Which of the following aided cultural diffusion among ancient peoples?
poor leaders
farming
new technology
trade
6
What is the taming of animals, in order to meet human wants or needs?
The Death Star
Social Exchange Theory
Domesticate
Nomads
7
What part of the world did the first hominids come from?
Africa
Europe
Asia and Australia
North and South America
8
Which of the following caused ancient civilizations to change?
nomadic herders
poor leaders
contact with other people through trade, warfare & migration
lack of traditions
9
Who are people who move from place to place following game animals and ripening fruits?
scribes
neolithic humans
nomads
slaves
10
Which was a key feature of early civilizations?
a system of exchanging goods for money
steelmaking
social equality
cities
11
Bronze became a favored material for tools and weapons because...
flint supplies diminished during the Bronze Age
artisans found it difficult to shape liquid metals
was much less expensive than copper or tin
it could be given a sharp cutting edge an was easy to mold.
12
Where did the first cities emerge?
along trade routes
along the Mediterranean coast
in the Americas
in river valleys
13
Who were the first human like creatures, walked upright, traced back to 4.4 million years ago
Cro-Magnon
ninjas
hominids
neanderthals
14
Historians are like archaeologists in that they both study how people lived by examining
artifacts.
longitude and latitude.
regions.
plants and animals.
15
What is the worship of many gods?
Animism
Monotheism
Polytheism
Buddhism
16
What are drawings that represent words called?
letters
scribes
pictograms
domesticate
17
What is the earliest period of
human
history called?
post-history
Neolithic Age
prehistory
Paleolithic Age
18
Which of the following was another characteristic of the Paleolithic Age?
Domestication of Animals
Organized Government
Farming Villages
Hunting and Gathering
19
The agricultural lifestyle led to the development of all of the following EXCEPT
land boundaries.
the calendar.
rules of inheritance.
cooperative hunting groups.
20
Which of the following is a neolithic advancement?
first use of fire
ritual burials
creation of calendars
written language
21
Process by which people become more proficient at earning a living by performing a single task?
the diffusion of culture
the specialization of labor
domestication
surplus agricultural production
22
Complex societies with advanced knowledge of farming, trade, government and art are
civilizations
cooperatives
agricultural villages
cultures
23
Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Period?
farming
written language
toolmaking
organized government
