Hunter Gatherers

What role did the men play in the hunter-gatherers’ society?

• they raised the children
• they hunted the food
• they planted the crops
• they gathered berries and seeds

What role did women play in the hunter-gatherer’s society?

• they built the shelters
• they hunted the food
• they planted the crops 
• they gathered berries and seeds

What did hunter-gatherers live in?

• they lived  in huts and caves
• they lived in shelters built from rocks 
• they lived in shelters built from steel
• they lived in wooden houses

Hunter Gatherer’s were nomadic. What statement below is CORRECT?

• they found one place to live and settled there
• they planted crops on farms and raised animals 
• they lived in towns and traded with other peoples
• they wandered about following sources of food and water

What innovation below DID NOT help hunter-gatherers to adapt to their natural environment?

• stone tools
• camp fires
• iron shovels
• bone weapons

What major event in world history caused the hunter-gatherers to migrate to new areas?

• a big flood
• an ice age
• a large war
• a world-wide plague

Why did the Ice Age event cause hunter-gatherers to migrate?

•  they had to move to higher ground for safety
• they had to follow the animals they hunted and water 
• they had to run away from their enemies and the fighting
• they had to gather special herbs to treat the deadly disease

How did nature help the hunter-gatherers get to North America?

• it created a temporary land bridge they could walk across
• it created flooding that allowed them to sail across the sea
• it created trained camels and horses that they could ride across
• it created a new pattern in the stars that they could follow across the sea

How did the domestication of plants and animals IMPACT the lives of hunter gatherers?

• they continued to be nomadic
• they did not change their way of life
• they settled down and became farmers
• they lived separately far away from others

Which was NOT a reason cavemen drew on cave walls?

• to communicate with each other
• to express their religious ideas
• to express themselves artistically
• to record the history of cavemen for others