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PC SS Unit 1
Unit 1 Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What kind of natural disaster pushed the first migrants to leave Africa? | There was extreme drought. |
| What was most likely the regular diet of the earliest hunter-gatherers? | wild plants they could pick and small animals they could find |
| Thinking about the arrowheads we studied in this unit, what you can tell about how hunter-gatherers got their food? | They shaped stone tools to help them hunt animals. |
| Why did nomadic hunter-gatherers build simple, temporary shelters instead of permanent houses? | They moved often to follow food sources, so shelters needed to be quick to build and leave behind. |
| Based on cave painting that we learned about in this unit, what characteristic of hunter-gatherer societies does this artwork best help us understand? | Their relationship with hunting and animals in their environment. |
| What happened when farmers grew more crops than they could use in a season? | They built ways to store the surplus. |
| How can the changes that happened during the Neolithic period be characterized? | People transitioned from nomadic life to agricultural societies. |
| Once early people learned to domesticate plants and animals, which of the following became possible? | Food surpluses, which allowed some people to do jobs other than farming, like making tools or pottery. |
| What are characteristics of civilizations? | infrastructure, division of labor, and organized government |
| In early civilizations, once farmers were able to produce a stable food supply, many people began doing other jobs like tool-making, weaving, or trading instead of farming. What is this characteristic called? | specialization |
| Roads, bridges, irrigation canals, and buildings are all examples of which key characteristic of civilizations? | infrastructure |
| ________are settled societies with shared customs and language. | Civilizations |
| Civilizations formed when people created settlements and developed connections with other settlements. To learn more about how civilizations developed, scientists study ________. | artifacts |
| How did early civilizations control floodwaters? | dams and canals |
| What advancement in technology allowed farmers to practice larger-scale agriculture? | irrigation |
| How did cuneiform help early civilizations? | It enabled communication and advancements in technology. |
| How did the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers help the people of Mesopotamia? | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers provided fertile soil for growing crops |
Created by:
Lisa May