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- 1. Multiple Choice
What did the landbridge pictured here allow the hunter-gatherers to do?
establish permanent settlements
set up farms
migrate across continents
have protections from enemies
- 2. Multiple Choice
What did the discovery of fire allow early man to do?
cook food, heat homes, protect families, hunt animals
create primitive machines requiring fire power
build more permanent structures
develop a complex form of communication
- 3. Multiple Choice
How did hunter-gatherers adapt to their environment?
They built permanent settlements
They traded with other groups of hunter-gatherers
They farmed the land
They developed stone tools and learned to use fire.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Where do historians think early man originated?
North America
East Africa
Asia
Antarctica
- 5. Multiple Choice
During what time period did man learn to use fire, make simple tools, and draw cave art?
The Old Stone Age
Neolithic Age
Middle Ages
the Renaissance
- 6. Multiple Choice
What roles did men and women have in Hunter-gatherer societies?
Men gathered and women hunted
Both men and women hunted and gathered.
Women gathered and men hunted.
Men hunted and gathered while women watched children
- 7. Multiple Choice
What does surplus mean?
Having just enough
Lacking supplies
Having enough for your family, but no one else
Having more than is needed.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which description below is of a permanent settlement?
Native Americans living in teepees and moving as herds of animals move.
Early man living in caves.
Communities of farming villages
Hunters and gatherers migrating with their food supply
- 9. Multiple ChoiceHow did hunter-gatherers express ideas to each other?written languageprimitive spoken languagecave paintingshieroglyphics
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat do prehistoric stone tools indicate about the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers?They prayed to gods of nature.They adapted to their natural environments.They used language to communicate.They had separate roles for men and women.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was a major discovery of hunter-gatherers during the Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)?fire for protection, heat and cookinga number system to count and tradea writing system to communicateiron plows to use on farms
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT a way that hunter-gatherers adapted to their environment?use of firesimple toolshunt and make clothesmake settlements
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was a technological advancement of hunter-gatherers?stone toolsnumber systemwriting systemsteel plow
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following are roles of men in hunter-gatherer societies?maintain fire
maintain firetake care of childrenstay close to settlementfollow, hunt and kill animals - 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is a role for women in hunter-gatherer societies?gathering fruit, nuts, and rootssharpening toolstrapping animalsleading the clan
- 16. Multiple ChoiceMigrate meansto stay in one placeto hunt animalsto farmto move from place to place
- 17. Multiple ChoiceAgriculture meansfarmingsearching for animal hideshuntinggathering
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat effect did farming have on the Stone Age?Permanant settlements were built.It forced man to hunt and gather.Permanant settlements were not built.It forced early man to make tools.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe Neolithic Revolution was a shift from _________ _________ to ____________ ___________.producing food to stealing foodagriculture to hunting foodgathering food to producing foodgathering food and hunting buffalos
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the Paleolithic Age also called?The New Stone AgeThe Old Stone AgeThe Ancient Stone AgeThe Stone Age
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe Neolithic Age, also called the New Stone Age, began with what discovery?metal toolsstone toolshuntingfarming
- 22. Multiple ChoiceHunter Gatherer’s were nomadic. What statement below is CORRECT?they found one place to live and settled therethey planted crops on farms and raised animalsthey lived in towns and traded with other peoplesthey wandered about following sources of food and water
- 23. 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
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhat do we call the time period when early humans stopped being hunter-gatherers?the Mesolithic Revolutionthe Paleolithic Revolutionthe Neolithic Revolutionthe Jurassic Revolution
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these domesticated animals did the hunter-gatherers find MOST useful for hunting and protection?dogcowgoatlion
- 26. Multiple ChoiceA changing to fit new conditionsNomadHunter-gathererAdaptExcavating
- 27. Multiple ChoiceWhat major change took place during the Neolithic Age?People built sturdier shelters.People began farming in a systematic way.People began to use spoken language to communicate.People learned to use fire to survive in cold environments.
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWhich concept is being depicted in the picture above?Migrationpolytheismcultural diffusiondivision of labor
- 29. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following summarizes the relationship between agriculture and the growth of towns?Agriculture prevented the development of civilizationsA food surplus helped establish permanent settlements.A food surplus led to more hunter-gatherer groups migrating.Agriculture competed with hunting and gathering practices.
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWhat is domestication?the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humansthe period when people moved from food gathering to food producingbuilding homes in order to stay in one place without moving againthe condition in which one has more than is needed
- 31. Multiple ChoiceAccording to the timeline, when did humans begin to farm?10,000 BC3,000 BC1 million years BC25 million BC
- 32. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a surplus?the process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humansthe period when people moved from food gathering to food producingbuilding homes in order to stay in one place without moving againthe condition in which one has more than is needed
- 33. Multiple ChoiceUse the bullets below to answer the following
-surplus food
-division of labor-settle in villages
-creation of government
What do the bullets represent?invention various of stone toolsreasons why the Ice Age endedcauses of human migrationseffects of the emergence of agriculture - 34. Multiple ChoiceBuilding dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to cropsirrigationnomadszigguratscribes
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