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- 1. Multiple Choice
How did hunter-gatherers obtain their food?They gathered it from storage.They ordered pizza.They hunted small animals and gathered wild plants, nuts and fruit.The scavenged dead animals and plants. - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a Nomad?People who travel from place to place depending on the season.People who are never mad.People who never travel.Hominids that lived in permanent structures called villages.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe time before written records were kept was called ___________________________.PreCambrianStone AgePrehistoricPaleolithic
- 4. Multiple ChoiceDuring the ___________, glaciers, large mass of ice that moves slowly down a mountain or across land, covered much of the land.RenaissanceIce AgeMiddle AgeCold Age
- 5. Multiple ChoiceHow did farming change life for early people?Hunting gave people a reason to settle.Agriculture, gave people a reason to migrate.Agriculture, gave people the ability to control their own food source.Farming gave people a reason to seek new land.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceHow did the domestication of plants and animals IMPACT the lives of hunter gatherers?they continued to be nomadicthey did not change their way of lifethey settled down and became farmersthey lived separately far away from others
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWeapons, tools, and other things made from humansFossilsArtifactsArchaeologistsHistorian
- 8. Multiple ChoiceHunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have beenNomadsHistorianArchaeologistAnthropologist
- 9. Multiple ChoicePeople who study and write about the human pastHistorianArcheologistArtifactFossil
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe taming of animals and plants for human useSpecializationDomesticationEducationArchaeology
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe development of different kinds/types of jobsSpecializationDomesticationAnthropologyFossils
- 12. Multiple ChoiceTraces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rockFossilsArtifactsArchaeologistsHistorians
- 13. Multiple ChoiceTools and methods to help humans perform taskstechnologyspecializationdomesticationhistorian
- 14. Multiple ChoiceAnother name for the Paleolithic ageBronze AgeStone AgeModern AgeVillages
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThis was the turning point in history when farming and domestication beganpaleolithic ageneolithic agemesopotamia
- 16. Multiple ChoicePaleolithic meansold stonenew stonebroken stonecrusty stone
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of these dates is the most recent?
1652 B.C.
A.D. 1560
A.D. 1200
1200 B.C.
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a Hunter-Gatherer?People who live in sedentary villages.People who hunted wild animals and gathered plants for food.People who collect hunting tools.People who engage in systematic agriculture.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhat group of people created cave art?prehistoricgeographylandformsurplus
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe earliest tools were made fromironanimal skinsfossilsstone
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe "New Stone Age" was also called___.Paleolithic AgeNeolithic Age
- 22. Multiple Choice7. Paleolithic people learned to tame ________.lionscowsfire
- 23. Multiple ChoiceLanguage made it easier for the people to do what?work togethersing and dancewrite history books
- 24. Multiple Choicethe earliest period of the Stone Ageneolithic agedomesticatecave artpaleolithic
- 25. Multiple Choicethe name for early humans who were nomads- they moved from place to place in search of food. They would often chase herds and gather plants and berries along the way.hunter-gatherersstone agepaleolithicice age
- 26. Multiple ChoiceWhat discovery allowed Paleolithic people to survive the Ice Age?firefarminghuntingspoken language
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following changes took place as a result of the agricultural revolution?the belief in many godsliving in small nomadic clansdomestication of plants and animalsdecrease in the size of the population
- 28. Multiple Choice1. What were the primary occupations of people during the Paleolithic Era?a. Hunters & Gathersa. Toolmakersa. Farmers
- 29. Multiple Choice1. What did the Neolithic Revolution bring about?a. Stormsa. Droughta. Agriculture
- 30. Multiple ChoiceOne Way that farming changed the way people lived was____________________.They no longer were nomadsLife expectancy was shorterThey had to move around to new farms
- 31. Multiple ChoiceDuring the Neolithic RevolutionPeople learned to grow foodPeople migrated to find foodPeople were nomadic
- 32. Multiple ChoiceNomadic means toSleep in tentsMove around frequentlyStay in one place
- 33. Multiple ChoiceWhich statement best describes hunters and gatherers?They were experts at using their environment to meet their basis needs.The tools they made from metal helped them to survive.They domesticated animals to help with daily activities.They developed ways to bring water to their crops.
- 34. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT a possible reason for the cave paintings made by the Paleolithic people?The paintings were the first expressions of art.The paintings taught young hunters how to hunt.The paintings taught young farmers how to plant seeds.The paintings had religious significance.
- 35. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the most common reason in which ancient people chose to migrate, or move from place to place?They needed to find employment and an incomeTo find resources such as food and shelterTo explore the world.They needed to find better transportation.
- 36. Multiple ChoiceUsed advanced tools such as plows.Neolithic ManPaleolithic Man
- 37. Multiple ChoicePeople began to learn how to weave from fibers from flax and wool.Neolithic ManPaleolithic Man
- 38. Multiple ChoicePeople began to tame goats, sheep, pigs, and cattle.Neolithic ManPaleolithic Man
- 39. Multiple ChoiceMen hunted while women often looked for items to gather like roots, berries and nuts. Plants were 70% of their diet.Neolithic ManPaleolithic Man
- 40. Multiple ChoiceVillages and settlements were where people began to live often made of mud, bricks and timber. These settlements became permanent.Neolithic ManPaleolithic Man
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