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World Hist Ch1
BHS Gross
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The era in prehistory that dates from at least 2 million BC to about 10,000 BC | Paleolithic period |
| The study of the origins and development of humans and human society | Anthropology |
| The skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs. | Technology |
| One of the first Neolithic villages | Jericho |
| The belief that spirits and forces exist within animals, objects or dreams | Animism |
| An early step in the development of writing | Pictographs |
| The prehistoric era that began about 10,000 BC | Neolithic period |
| Describes people who believe in many gods | Polytheistic |
| Discovered evidence at Olduvai Gorge that early hominids learned to use tools | Mary and Louis Leakey |
| First to discover enough of a skeleton to provide a good look at an early hominid | Donald Johanson |
| What are an archaeologist's primary resources in learning about prehistoric peoples? | fossilized remains |
| Which hominid group do anthropologists think was the first to use fire? | Homo erectus |
| Which of the following abilities did early humans develop long before the others? | ability to plant crops |
| The top social class in ancient societies was typically occupied by | priests and nobles |
| Early modern humans developed language so they could | cooperate during the hunt |
| Unlike the first civilizations in Asia and Africa, the first civilizations in the Americas | developed away from river valleys |
| The only hominids still on Earth today are? | Homo sapiens |
| The iceman most likely died from what? | hypothermia |
| By the New Stone Age, community decisions were probably being made by who? | a council of older men |
| Tools and weapons found in graves of people of the Old Stone Age suggest that the people... | believed in an afterlife |
| Some scholars think that the Old Stone Age people created cave paintings why? | to decorate the cave where they lived |
| Scribes were valuable to rulers because of the scribes' skill in | reading and writing |
| The chipped stones that Mary and Louis Leakey found in the Olduvai Gorge revealed that early hominids had learned how to? | use technology |
| Which of the following is an example of an artifact? rock layers, if it is pretty, pottery | pottery |
| What is the main feature taht defines civilization? | cities |
| The skeleton that Donald Johanson discovered and named "Lucy" belonged to the earliest hominid group called | australopithecines |
| The populations of early villages were able to grow mostly due to | food surpluses |
| A major result of migration, trade, and warfare was | a transition from nomadic to settled life |
| Which of the following is one of the basic characteristics of civilization? | a culture |
| The New Stone Age began when early people learned to | farm |
| Many nomadic herders tended their animals on the steppes, which were | sparse, dry grasslands |
| One difference between early modern humans and Neanderthals is that early modern humans | walked upright |
| In early cities, people began to depend on others to fulfill some of their needs because of | job specialization |
| At a dig site, geologists can help archeologists determine what? | the way of life of the people |
| A ruler who conquered many cities and villages created | a city-state |
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