6th World History Unit 1

6th World History Unit 1 Review

Skills & Early Civilizations

Multiple Choice

Why did people domesticate plants during the Neolithic era?

• to adapt to the climate

• to prevent soil erosion

• to create a reliable food supply

• to eliminate the need to hunt animals

Multiple Choice

What term describes a community of people who share customs, a language, values, laws, traditions, and government?

• agriculture

• barter

• polytheism

• society

Multiple Choice

How did geography impact where people chose to settle?

• People needed to settle near a water source, such as a lake or river.

• People used tools to measure the amount of rainfall to determine where to settle.

• People wrote down the temperature throughout the seasons to decide if crops would grow.

• People decided that soil quality was not as important as the animals that could be used for food.

Multiple Choice

How did new tools revolutionize agriculture during the Neolithic era?

• New tools saved early humans labor and time.

• New tools made it possible to produce less food.

• New tools allowed early humans to grow plants without water.

• New tools helped early humans develop different seeds for planting.

Multiple Choice

Which calendar has 355 days in the year?

• Chinese

• Gregorian

• Islamic

• Roman

Multiple Choice

Which length of time is accurately represented?

• The years 1920 to 1929 are an era.

• The years 3001 to 4000 are a decade.

• The years 1300 to 1399 are a century.

• The years 2000 to 2010 are a millennium.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes a command economy?

• Technology remains limited to the use of simple tools.

• Trade is limited to only the bartering of goods and services.

• Farming, hunting, and gathering methods change little over time.

• The government sets prices of goods and services and distributes them.

Multiple Choice

Which item is an example of a secondary source?

• a contract

• a documentary

• a journal entry

• a letter

Multiple Choice

A good harvest that produces more food than a civilization can eat is an example of what?

• demand

• scarcity

• supply

• surplus

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes a characteristic of a primary source?

• It is written by a historian.

• It is a critical analysis of a document.

• It is created after the era discussed.

• It is firsthand knowledge of an event.