Ch 1 The First Humans
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What is a method used to determine the age of artifacts?
a. theory
c. radiocarbon dating
b. archaeology
d. anthropology
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2. One of the distinguishing features of the human species is the ability to make ____.
a. tools
c. homes
b. weapons
d. fires
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3. Early people used fire for warmth and to keep ____ away from their camp site.
a. lizards
c. birds
b. insects
d. wild animals
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4. These skilled workers made weapons and jewelry and traded them with neighboring peoples.
a. nomads
c. monarchs
b. artisans
d. hominids
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5. The term Homo sapiens means
a. “wise, wise human.”
b. “homo habilis.”
c. “wise human.”
d. “Neanderthals.”
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6. Early people living during the Paleolithic Age were able to survive because of these kind of tools.
a. stone
c. copper
b. metal
d. bronze
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7. Scientists believe that Homo sapiens sapiens appeared in _____ between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago.
a. North America
c. Africa
b. Asia
d. Europe
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8. Paleolithic peoples were nomads because they had no choice but to
a. flee from the woolly mammoth.
b. move on after they had depleted the land.
c. escape the pollution they caused.
d. follow animal migrations and vegetation cycles.
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9. The Paleolithic Age is
a. also called the New Stone Age.
b. not proven to have existed.
c. usually known as the Primitive Age.
d. the period in which humans used simple stone tools.
____ 10. Who were the first humans to learn to deliberately make fires?
a. Canadians
c. the Neolithic peoples
b. Homo erectus
d. cave people
____ 11. The real change in the Neolithic Revolution was the
a. movement away from eating just fruits and grains to eating meat.
b. discovery of new caves.
c. shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture.
d. development of bowls and spoons.
____ 12. The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that humans
a. had less control over their environment.
b. could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities.
c. could use animals as pets.
d. could use fire to cook their food.
____ 13. Food surpluses in the Neolithic farming village of Çatalhüyük
a. made it possible for people to do things other than farming.
b. made the village susceptible to raids from nomadic tribes.
c. were not stored properly and spoiled, so people starved to death.
d. caused the entire population to become obese.
____ 14. The use of metals marked the end of the Neolithic Age and a
a. beginning to the Metal Age.
b. movement away from agriculture.
c. complete abandonment of other tools.
d. new level of human control over the environment and its resources.
____ 15. Historians have identified the basic characteristics of civilizations as
a. vehicles, use of fire, nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering, and technology.
b. villages, temples, trade, tools, use of fire, and armies.
c. use of metals, weapons, houses, food, religion, and art.
d. cities, government, religion, social structure, writing, and art.
____ 16. Anthropology is the study of
a. underground insects.
b. tools and weapons.
c. human life and culture.
d. ancient texts.
____ 17. The term “Homo erectus” means which of the following?
a. “wise, wise human”
c. “tall humans”
b. “upright human”
d. “old stone”
____ 18. Thermo-luminescence dating determines an object’s age by
a. detecting levels of C-14.
b. measuring light trapped from electrons.
c. analyzing plant remains.
d. looking at a calendar.
____ 19. The Neolithic Age is sometimes
a. questioned because of the lack of evidence to show its existence.
b. called the New Stone Age.
c. mislabeled as the Rock of Ages.
d. debated as the greatest age the world has ever known.
____ 20. The Neolithic Revolution can best be described as
a. a political conflict between the Neolithic and Paleolithic peoples.
b. the result of the youth taking control of the tribes.
c. the growing of crops and the taming of food-producing animals by early humans.
d. the use of fire by early humans to change their environment.
____ 21. The six characteristics of civilizations are cities, government, ____, social structure, writing, and art.
a. religion
b. calligraphy
c. use of fire
d. pets
Completion
Complete each statement.
22. Paleolithic people used ____________________ for clothing and shelter.
23. As men took on more responsibility for obtaining food and protecting the settlement during the Neolithic
Age, they began to play a more ____________________ role in society.
24. As cultures grew and became more complex, a new form of human society called ____________________
developed.
25. As trade brought civilizations into contact with one another, it led to the transfer of ____________________,
such as metals for tools and new farming techniques, from one region to another.
26. Rulers, priests, merchants, and artisans used ____________________ to keep accurate records.
27. All humans today belong to the same ____________________ of human beings.
28. Paleolithic humans were called ____________________ because they moved from place to place to survive.
Essay
29. Compare hominids with Homo sapiens.
30. Explain how the roles of men and women changed from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age