Sem Final

What method is most commonly used to determine the age of artifacts?

• Radiocarbon Dating

• thermo-luminescence

• Tree Ring Dating

One of the distinguishing features of the human species is the ability to make ____.

• Weapons

• Fires

• Tools

• homes

During the Paleolithic Age people primarily obtained their food through what means?

• Trade

• Domestication

• Hunting and Gathering

• Farming

The real change in the Neolithic Revolution was the

• Movement away from eating just fruits and grains to eating meat

• Discovery of new caves

• Shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture

• Development of bowls and spoons

Most early civilizations developed around or near what physical feature?

• Oceans

• Mountains

• Caves

• Rivers

Historians have identified the basic characteristics of civilizations as

• Vehicles, use of fire, nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering, and technology

• Villages, Temples, Trade, tools, use of fire

• Use of metals, weapons, houses, food, religion, and art

• Cities, government, religion, social structure, writing, and art

Which of the following is the period before writing was developed?

• Neolithic Age

• Ancient times

• Pre History

• Archaeology

Mesopotamia and its rich farmland were created because of the regular flooding of what two rivers?

• Bosporus and Dardanelles

• Nile and Yellow

• Rhine and Po

• Tigris and Euphrates

Hammurabi is remembered for

• Inventing the first wooden bicycle

• The first written law code

• Creating a post office

• Overthrowing the Akkadian Empire

Which answer most accurately explains why the ancient Egyptian civilization began on the banks of the Nile River?

• Egyptians could not travel to the Euphrates River

• Egypts oral traditions identified this location as their homeland

• Regular flooding resulted in rich soil for farming

• Fish in the Nile were easy to catch