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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe existence of this food surplus allowed societies in these valleys to become more....Agricultural basedCreated larger armies for warsAllowed for specialization of jobsmade more use of the surrounding rivers
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat does nomadic mean?They travel from place to placeEarly humansReligious peopleOnly travel for religion
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThis was the first group to bury its deadHunter-gathersNeanderthalsHomosapiensEarly Stone Age humans
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat does an archaeologist study?How people act when they are togetherWhat happens if certain chemicals are combinedWhy people need certain foods to surviveThe things that people in the past leave behind
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat is an artifact?An object made or used by humansAn imprint of a plant from long agoThe remains of a person from long agoA food prepared or eaten by humans
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat are geologists able to tell archaeologist about fossils?The beliefs of early peopleHow early people livedHow old they areWhat they were used for
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich phrase defines the time called prehistory?Before computersBefore written recordsBefore the year 0Before the year 2000
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhere do many scientist believe that human life began?AsiaAfricaNorth AmericaChina
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe economy of early villages and cities was based mainly onTradeHunting and gatheringFarmingProduction of tools
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhy did the earliest civilization appear in areas like Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley?Large number of domesticated animalsIsolated from other regionsAreas were far away from the oceansAreas were near rivers and fertile soil
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat was one of the most important signs that early humans were developing a complex culture?settlements of early people near waterexistence of cave paintingsemergence of hunter-gather societiesuse of wood for making tools
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhen archaeologist study an excavation site, objects found closer to the surface arenot as old as those found in deeper layersunlikely to contain any radioactive materialimpossible to date with any accuracyless damaged than those found below them
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich technology had a major effect on early human development?The use of firethe gathering of plantsThe building of large citiesthe use of a written language
- 14. Multiple ChoiceIf the "out of Africa" theory of human migration is correct, Homo sapiens fossil remains found nearest to Africa should beyounger than those found further from AfricaOlder than those found further from AfricaYounger than those found on other continentsOlder than those found in Africa
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhy were archaeologists interested in the cave paintings found near Lascaux in France?paintings were the first evidence of early humans ever found in Francethe caves had not existed during the last Ice Agethe paintings provided evidence that humans had become more complexcave paintings were worth a great deal of money.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhy did modern humans have to adapt?they had to make new cave paintingsthey had to adjust to new environmentsthey had to change their belief systemthey had to move to Africa
- 17. Multiple ChoiceHow did the world change when modern humans populated it?There were humans on every islandThey were humans only in AfricaThere were humans in every regionThere were humans just in warm places.
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat can you do with domesticated animals?watch them huntstudy their originshunt them for fooduse them for work
- 19. Multiple ChoiceSpecialization includes people whoare very good at one skillgrow all their own foodspeak one language very wellcan solve almost any problem
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhen there is a surplus of foodextra food spoilspeople wait in line for foodfamilies have extra foodnot enough rain falls to grow food
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhat made the first villages possible?warm clothinggovernmentarmiesfarming
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhat happens in a community's economy?services produce goods and store them for late usegoods and services are produced and distributedhunters, gathers, and farmers produce everythingenough foods are produced for a small number of people to survive
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhich best defines a civilization?A community ruled by customs and a council to settle disputea community built on farming instead of hunting and gatheringa community with cities, government, and specialized workersa community that has many different social classes.
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhat were the most important resources for early civilizations?workers and their skillshunters and gatherssoil, water, seedsmeat, furs, skins
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich term could you use to describe the structure of social classes in early civilizations?circlesquaretrianglepyramid
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