SOL Review Quiz # 1

• Invention of written language
• Development of agriculture
• Specialization of labor
• Use of pottery 

• Central Europe; 1
• East Africa; 2
• Southeast Asia; 3
• East Asia; 4

Which statement best explains the migration of early humans?

• Rise of civilizations displaced other people.
  
• Natural  disasters forced people to leave native lands.
• People searched for new sources of food.
  
• Religious conflicts made people leave disputed lands.
  

When studying prehistoric people, cave drawings like this one allow archaeologists to -

• speculate about daily lives
  
• understand spoken languages
  
• interpret written records
  
• study farming techniques
  

What was the major change caused by the  agricultural revolution?

• Increase of spoken languages
  
• End of hunting
  
• Development of permanent settlements
  
• Elimination of trade

Which factor had the greatest effect on the movements of early nomadic societies?

• Mineral deposits
  
• Religious beliefs
• Survival needs
  
• Tribal treaties
  

What effect did the inventions of the plow, pottery, and weaving have on early societies?

• They helped people move about to find  food.
  
• They increased incidences of fighting among  neighbors.
  
• They helped create agricultural surpluses  and encouraged settlements.
  
• They gave rise to early forms of  government.
  

Aleppo, Jericho and Catal Huyuk were established near the 

• Indus and Ganges rivers
  
• Huang He and Yangtze rivers
• Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  
• Nile and Rosetta rivers
  

Scientists determine the ages of fossils mainly by

• measuring the number of impurities in the  creature’s blood
  
• using scientific tests such as carbon dating
  
• determining how the creature was fossilized
• using educated guesses based on the position  of the fossil
  

What is the scattering of Jews/Hebrews across
 the Fertile Crescent, North Africa and Europe?

• Exodus
  
• Captivity
• Exile
  
• Diaspora