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world history
world history chapter. 1 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 3 characteristics of most civilizations: | Division Of Labor/ Cities and Towns with a Government/ be able to produce surplus foods. |
| Neolithic Revolution | Shift from food gathering to food production in prehistoric times. |
| Anthropologists | Scientists who study the skeletal remains of early human like creatures. |
| Where Jarmo is located | Iraq |
| Where Catalhuyuk is located | Turkey |
| What invention made man the main food producer: | The Plow |
| 4 river civilization: | Nile River, Tigris/Euphrates River, Indus River, and Huang He/ Yellow River. |
| What invention made the use of iron possible in early times: | The Forge |
| 2 important developments associated with the New Stone Age: | Agriculture and Domestication Of Animals |
| Mary Leaky: | Found skeletal fragments dating back 3.7 million years ago. Saw footprints in volcanic rock believed it was from a human like creatures. |
| 2 effects of Ice Age on earth: | Erosion/ humans and animals had to move to warmer places/ plants and animals were killed/ lakes and rivers were formed from melted ice. (choose the 2 that you will remember best) |
| Where each of the 4 river valleys are located: | (Nile River is located in Africa), (Tigris/Euphrates River is located in Southwest Asia), (Indus river is located in Southern Asia), (Huang He/Yellow River is located in Eastern Asia.) |
| Names of each of the 3 Stone Ages: | Paleolithic Stone Age is the oldest Stone Age, Mesolithic is the Middle Stone Age, and Meolithic Stone Age is the Newest Stone age. |
| Age of atoms that radiocarbon dating can be used for: | Up to 50,000 years old |
| When prehistory developed in history: | Development Of Writing |
| Artisans: | Skilled Craft Workers |
| Number of cold weather periods experienced by earth: | 4 |
| 2 things that farming depended on in the river valleys: | Irrigation and the ability to control the floods. |
| Archaeologists: | Scientist who excavate ancient settlements and study artifacts. |
| What development changed the basic way people lived: | Agriculture |
| Invention of what made the Cro-Magnons more effective hunters than the Neanderthals: | The invention of the spear |
| Female skeletal remains-discovered by whom and given what name: | Donald Johanson and given the name Lucy |
| Civilization: | When a culture becomes complex |
| Material objects shaped by human beings or earlier hominids: | Artifacts |
| What made Neanderthals different from earlier hominids: | They buried their dead |
| Burying objects with the dead tells you what: | They believe in life after death |
| Type of calendar produced by river civilization: | Moon based |