Unit 1 Test - Early Man and the Rise of Civilizations

T or F? Social Scientists are similar to detectives.

• True! They uncover mysteries of the past.

• False! They are totally different.

An archaeologist is an expert who...

• studies and records the past

• studies the past by examining objects

• studies and creates maps of earth's natural and human-made features

A historian is an expert who...

• studies and records the past

• studies the past by examining objects

• studies and creates maps of earth's natural and human-made features

A geographer is an expert who...

• studies and records the past

• studies the past by examining objects

• studies and creates maps of earth's natural and human-made features

A spear thrower from 200,000 years ago is an example of a(n)...

• historian

• secondary source

• artifact

• ritual

An artifact that is "prehistoric" is from...

• the Common Era.

• modern day.

• yesterday.

• before written history .

Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony is...

• an artifact

• a prehistoric event

• a ritual

• a discovery

True or False? Prehistoric history is difficult to understand completely because there is a lack of written documents and artifacts to study.

• True! People did not have a system of writing in prehistoric times so we do not know what happened!

• False! We have exact information of what happened in prehistoric times.

T or F? Cave art helps us understand a glimpse of prehistoric life, but we still have many unanswered questions.

• True!

• False!

A scientist that studies human development is called...

• a hominin

• a geographer

• an anthropologist

• a specialist