Prehistory and Human Origins

Scientists estimate that the earth may be

• 6 trillion years old

• 6 million years old

• 6 billion years old

• 4-6 million years old

Homo Sapiens emerged about

• 2,000,000 years ago

• 200,000 years ago

• 20,000 years ago

• 10,000 years ago

What did the earliest humans not do?

• develop complex religion

• herd animals

• pottery for storage

• collect wild plants

Q4:Larger populations, impressive architecture, writing, and increases in social division meant

• the eradication of hominids

• the birth of civilization

• a lack of change and progress

• the birth of christianity

Many of the earliest civilizations were located primarily near

• mountains

• oceans

• Africa

• rivers

What is not an example of culture

• clothing

• ideas

• institutions

• all are examples of culture

What era came first neolithic or paleolithic

• neolithic

• paleolithic

• neither

• both

Hominids

• were bipedals

• moved out of forests into savannas to hunt big game

• refer to all Great apes including humans and their ancestors

• all of the above

In around 15,000 B.C.E. Homo sapiens would inhabit almost every environment.

• True

• False

The Americas were populated from Beringia. The first continents to be settled by humans.

• True

• False