Unit 1 Test Review - Ancient World History

A _______________________ is a person who studies and writes about the human past.

• Historian
• Biologist
• Psychologist
• Paleontologist

The time before people first began to write about 5,500 years ago is called

• Prehistory
• Middle Ages
• Classical Age
• Modern Age

Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

• Fossil
• Artifact
• Ruin

A scientist who studies how humans and their societies develop.

• Anthropologist
• Archaeologist
• Historian
• Psychologist

The tools and methods that help humans perform tasks are called _______________.

• Technology
• Trade
• Evolution

Early period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 million BCE & lasted until about 8000 BCE.

• Paleolithic Age
• Neolithic Age
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age

Paleolithic Age is a term meaning ____________________.

• Old Stone Age
• New Stone Age
• Ice Age
• New Technology

During the Paleolithic Age, people got food by ________.

• Hunting and Gathering
• Farming

Groups of people who move from place to place are called __________________.

• Nomads
• Anthropologists
• Astronomers
• Historians

The start of the Neolithic Age is often called the _________________________ because farming changed people's lives

• Neolithic Revolution
• New Age
• Modern Era