- 1. What made it possible for agricultural settlement?
A) the ability to withstand cold temperatures
B) fertile land from annual flooding
C) advances in technology
- 2. What are three characteristics of Nomadic herders?
A) seeking, traveling, settling
B) hunting, farming, gathering
C) grazing, raising, herding
- 3. What years did the Mesolithic Era take place?
A) 1,000-5,000 BC
B) 0-1000 BC
C) 10,000-8,500 BC
D) 12,000-15,000 BC
- 4. What continent is believe to be where humans first evolved, and where we have spent the majority of our time on Earth?
A) Asia
B) Europe
C) North America
D) Africa
- 5. What caused the human population drop below 10,000, nearly making us extinct?
A) Meteor
B) Ice Age
C) Hurricane
D) Pangea
- 6. What years did the Paleolithic Era take place?
A) 70,000-12,000 BC
B) 10,000-8,500 BC
C) 12,000-15,000 BC
D) 1,000-5,000 BC
- 7. What years did the Neolithic Era take place?
A) 9,000-1,800 BC
B) 10,000-8,500 BC
C) 70,000-12,000 BC
D) 0-1000 AD
- 8. In a hunter-gatherer society what roles did the males play?
A) cook
B) gather fruits
C) herd
D) hunt & build
- 9. In a hunter-gatherer society what roles did the women play?
A) guard the homes
B) gathered fruits, prepared meals, took care of children.
C) hunt and build
- 10. What caused a huge shift in society during the Neolithic Era?
A) better hunting stategies
B) migration
C) domestication of plants and animals
D) cleaner lifestyles
- 11. Approximately what year did irrigation begin?
A) 70,000 BC
B) 1,000 BC
C) 10,000 BC
D) 6,000 BC
- 12. Explain how the first hunter-gatherer societies and the first farming societies are similar and different.
- 13. What was the life expectancy of early hunter-gatherers?
A) 30 yrs
B) 50 yrs
C) 10 yrs
D) 70 yrs
- 14. Why did early humans migrate and settle throughout the world?
A) for fun
B) to follow animal migration & look for new land
C) to plant new crops
D) to find water routes
- 15. An ___________ studys prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments
A) historian
B) paleantologist
C) archaeologist
D) geographer
- 16. Explain a pastoral society
- 17. A ______________ is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another, mainly following animal migration.
A) settler
B) hunter-gatherer
C) nomad
- 18. Why did the use of agriculture contribute to the huge population growth during after 10,000 B.C.E.?
A) humans sustained a diet
B) the discovery of medicine
C) disease from animals
- 19. The ______________ was the transition from hunter-gatherer to cultivation.
A) agricultural revolution
B) pastoral era
C) migration theory
- 20. Why did early humans create cave art?
- 21. Why did population rise due to the domestication of plants and animals?
A) people found new homes
B) people became better hunters
C) more calories, meant more people to be fed
- 22. The oldest stone tools of Paleolithic societies consisted of
A) hammerstones, cores and handaxes
B) bows and arrows
C) hammers and knives
D) nails, wheels and firestarters
- 23. Around 10,000 BCE, What two discoveries revolutionized human society?
A) farming and herding
B) war and conquest
C) clothing and housing
D) hunting and fishing
- 24. What new discoveries transformed permanent settlements into civilizations?
A) gold and silver
B) huning and fishing
C) witchcraft and religion
D) bronze and writing
- 25. What made it possible for early humans to ingest cattle milk?
A) cattle were not bred in family
B) they drank it regularly
C) a mutation of lactose tolerance
D) they learned to process milk
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