Review: Early Humans and Ancient Egypt

The earliest humans got their food by ________.

• gathering berries and nuts and hunting animals.
• domesticating chickens and cows.
• growing crops.
• buying it at the store.

Archaeological evidence shows that humans may have first appeared in ________.

• Africa.
• South America.
• North America.
• Europe.

People who follow the animals they hunt and live in movable shelters are known to be: 

• sedentary
• solitary
• settled
• nomadic

The human ancestors who first began using tools ________.

• had an upright posture and walked on their hind legs.
• lived in Phoenicia.
• had an upright posture and were farmers who irrigated their crops.
• made swords out of metal.

Because people began irrigating crops, ________.

• scribes and artisans became farmers, ending the division of labor.
• not everyone had to farm, leading to the division of labor.
• there was a lack of food.
• the Ice Age began.

In the Bronze Age, ________.

• people first learned how to control fire to cook food.
• humans worked only with timber.
• the first Homo sapiens migrated to Antarctica.
• people learned to heat and combine metals to make tools and weapons.

During the Stone Age, people ________.

• lived as nomads and used stone tools.
• saw the advancing ice of the Ice Age.
• lived alongside the dinosaurs.
• developed civilizations with governments and written language.

Due to the invention of fire, the early humans of 7000 BC ________.

• cooked their meat, making it easier to chew and digest.
• burned their enemies' farms.
• put light in their permanent homes.
• made tools out of metal.

Canals led to civilization mostly because they ________.

• made the soil dry, leading farmers to become nomadic.
• made fishing impossible, leading to increased hunting.
• made travel between villages possible for the first time.
• made crops easier to grow, leading to surpluses of food.

Domesticating animals allowed people to ________.

• have more time to hunt and gather.
• settle down, build communities and become civilized.
• build tools and make fire.
• develop language.