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world history quiz
world history quiz 1+2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| According to the textbook, an ice age, where water levels dropped, enabled humans to walk on dry land between Asia and the Americas. What continent shows human habitation that cannot be explained by human arriving on dry land during the last ice age? | Australia |
| What name is given to a "taxonomic rank" that includes several "similar and related species" within it? | a genus |
| Homo erectus is distinct from other early hominids by its brain size. | False |
| At about what time did Homo erectus population start leaving Africa? | Between 1.8 and 1.5 million years ago |
| The shift from the Paleolithic Era to the Neolithic Era was marked by the rise of nation-states | False |
| Modern scholars made conclusions about Paleolithic humans from archaeology but from studying modern hunter-gatherer groups. What is the name of the people in the Kalahari Desert that the textbook mentions as still practices a hunter-gatherer lifestyle? | the San people |
| What is the taxonomic designation for modern humans, among the diversity of early of the early human species? | Homo sapiens |
| What is the name of the beliefs held by early humans that all of nature was spiritual to some degree, including inanimate objects? | animism |
| Climate change in the Paleolithic Era resulted in much of the northern hemisphere being covered in what? | ice |
| What term is used by the book to describe the process in which people focused less on multiple tasks, as they had as hunter-gatherers, and began to work in just one aspect of food production or even worked apart from food production altogether? | Egalitarianism |
| According to the chapter, what is the name give to the study of history that looks at the sequence of events from earlier times to more recent ones? | Chronological approach |
| What type of history became important in the 1960s and proposes that history is made by all people, not just the elite? | Social history |
| According to the textbook, which of the following is not of the things to consider when interpreting primary sources? | The accuracy of the source |
| According to the textbook, which of the following best describes the idea of revisionism? | The ongoing process of refining how we see the pass by looking at new peoples or new points of view |
| What name does Chapter 1 five to a person "who may reside in only one nation but who identifies as part of the larger world community"? | global citizen |
| What is the name of the philosopher whose oft quoted idea about history repeating itself is used at the start of chapter 1 to explain what history is? | George Santayana |
| What building is used by the textbook to explain the interpretation of an image? | Hagia Sophia in Istanbul |
| What is the name of the theory that states history is caused by the actions of leaders and heroes? | great man theory |
| When we interpret a primary source, we often consider the use of language in how a message is created. According to the textbook, what term means "the use of language"? | Rhetoric |
| Which of the following best explains the idea of a secondary source? | A secondary source is a source created after the events occurred, often by people with no first-hand experience with the event, like historians. |
| What is the name for the most immediate cause to any development in history? | Primary cause |
| According to the textbook, which of these is the tertiary cause for the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941? | The long-term competition between the US and Japan for control of the Pacific |
| Which theory of history looks at human societies as driven towards a specific end or goal, such as the advance of democracy? | Progressive history |
| What term is used to explain the idea of meeting the past on its own terms, without the imposition of our own values on historical agents acting in their own time? | Historical empathy |
| What is the term used to describe the study of how earlier historians interpreted the past? | Historiography |
| In the section "Past Meets the Present," the author Chinua Achebe was surprised to learn that people in what country could identify with his novel about colonization among the Igbo people? | South Korea |
| According to the textbook, which of the following is not one of the goals of studying history? | The study of history prepares us to engage with the processes of globalization that have dominated human history for the past few centuries. |
| What is the problem of trying to write history using the evidence we have for a region like Latin America? | The historical record was irrevocably changed by colonization and indigenous records were destroyed. |
| In addition to the San, what other group of modern hunter-gatherers was used in the book to explain why scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherers the way they do? | The Inuit |
| What is the name to the first era of human culture, named for the chief material used to make tools? | The Paleolithic Era |
| What do the "out of Africa" and "multiregional evolution model" try to explains? | Why the diversity of the human species declined |
| According to the textbook, which of the following does not explain the drawbacks of embracing agriculture in the Neolithic Era? | Agricultural societies were less literate than hunter-gatherers and they rarely recorded their beliefs or stories. |
| What is the taxonomic name given to the first member of the genus "homo"? | Homo habilis |
| The "out of Africa" theory and the "multiregional evolution theory" are theories that attempt to explain what? | The gradual extinction of other human groups except Homo sapiens |
| The Panga ya Saidi is what type of human dwelling from the Paleolithic era? | cave dwelling |
| Which of the following is not one of the names given to classify the types of tools used by humans in the Paleolithic Era? | Waukegan tools |
| What name is give to the early culture that included settlements like Jericho in the Middle East? | Natufian |
| Which of the following statements is not true about the San, a hunter-gather group studied by anthropologists to make sense of our own past? | Although lacking political structure, successful hunters take on the role of chieftains for their tribes. |
| The benefits of agriculture ensured that no human societies remained hunter-gatherers after the Neolithic Revolution. | False |
| What name is given to the area in the Middle East, including parts of modern Turkey and Israel, where agriculture first flourished? | The Fertile Crescent |
| Modern scholars make conclusions about Paleolithic hunter-gatherer groups from remains but studying modern hunter-gatherer societies. What is name of people discussed by the book as surviving in the Artic regions of the northern hemisphere? | The Inuit peoples |
| Which of the following is the name given to the theory that various groups of Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens at the same time? | Multiregional evolution model |
| Which of the following is not true about Paleolithic society? | Paleolithic women did not contribute to the production of food and largely took care of children |
| The Neolithic Era was marked by what important development in human history? | The development of agriculture |
| What is the name to the first era of human culture, named for the chief material used to make tools? | The Old Stone Age |
| The shift from the Paleolithic Era to the Neolithic Era was marked by the rise of nation-states | False |
| The Neolithic Era was marked by what important development in human history? | The development of agriculture |
| The "out of Africa" theory and the "multiregional evolution theory" are theories that attempt to explain what? | The gradual extinction of other human groups except Homo sapiens |
| According to the textbook, which of the following does not explain the drawbacks of embracing agriculture in the Neolithic Era? | Agricultural societies were less literate than hunter-gatherers and they rarely recorded their beliefs or stories. |
| Modern scholars make conclusions about Paleolithic hunter-gatherer groups from remains also by studying modern hunter-gatherer societies. What is name of the people discussed by the book as surviving in the Artic regions of the northern hemisphere? | The Inuit peoples |
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