Chapter One, Section One Worksheet
Focusing on the Main Idea: Fill in the blanks with the words from the text that fit best.
1. _______________ people adapted to their ______________ and invented many _______________ to help them survive.
2. In the _______________ Age, people started farming, building _______________, producing _______________, and trading.
Short Answers: Answer each question with the information you were told to write down in your notes.
3. Approximately what year was the city of Jericho founded? _______________________________________________________
4. Approximately what year did the Bronze Age begin? ____________________________________________________________
5. What is the difference between an anthropologist and an archaeologist? _____________________________________________
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6. What’s the difference between an artifact and a fossil?___________________________________________________________
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7. What types of artifacts do archaeologists look for? ______________________________________________________________
8. What was the life changing discovery that Paleolithic people made? ________________________________________________
9. What do Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic mean? ___________________________________________________________
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10. What was the major difference between the tasks of women and men during the Paleolithic Age? ________________________
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11. What tools were commonly found at archaeological sites of Paleolithic people? ______________________________________
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12. How did tools used by the Neolithic differ from those of the Paleolithic? ___________________________________________
13. Why do some historians consider the agricultural revolution the most important event in human history? __________________
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14. Between what lines of latitude did most early farming take place?_________________________________________________
15. Why did people in different regions grow different crops? _______________________________________________________
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16. Why did Otzi the Iceman dress warmly? ____________________________________________________________________
17. What was the nickname for the female hominid found by Donald Johanson in 1974? _________________________________
18. In what gorge in Tanzania did Louis and Mary Leakey find two million year old fossils in the 1930s? ___________________
19. How do wind and water affect land features? _________________________________________________________________
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20. How is the word “domesticate” used in the text regarding the agricultural revolution? _________________________________
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21. What were the major agricultural regions of the ancient world as described in the textbook? ____________________________
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22. According to the maps drawn by you, what crops were grown in North America? ____________________________________
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23. What were the differences between the arts and crafts for the Paleolithic and Neolithic people? __________________________
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24. What was meant by “specialization” when it came to the Neolithic people? __________________________________________
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25. How did the Paleolithic and Neolithic people obtain food? _______________________________________________________
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26. How did the development of spoken language help Paleolithic people? _____________________________________________
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27. In what three ways was fire a life changing development for early man? ____________________________________________
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28. What is a nomad? _______________________________________________________________________________________
29. According to the text, what three activities were people able to do once they learned how to grow food? ___________________
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30. What were the differences in the technology used by the Paleolithic and Neolithic people? ______________________________
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