Early Humans Unit Review

The earliest period of human history is called the 

• Paleolithic age
• Neolithic age
• Bronze age
• African age

Paleolithic people were nomads because they had no choice but to 

• Flee from neighboring people
• Search for new food sources
• Move to fertile soil
• search for better jobs

In the ________ age, humans settled in small farming villages

• Ice
• Paleolithic 
• Neolithic
• Bronze

Which factor had the greatest effect on the movements of early nomadic societies?

• Survival needs
• Tribal treaties
• Mineral deposits
• Religious beliefs

The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant humans

• Became better at hunting and gathering
• Could stop being nomads and settled in communities
• Could continue as nomads and become more specialized
• Could use fire to cook their food

______ is a characteristic of a civilization?

• Government
• Writing
• Religion
• All of the above

Since people needed fertile soil for farming the first cities emerged in

• River valleys
• tropical islands
• trade routes
• the Australian coast

Humans began keeping written records in the 

• Bronze age
• Paleolithic age
• neolithic age
• Gold Age

Sedentary Lifestyle

• Doing one specific thing in order to get the most benefit out of it.
• A type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity.
• Relies on farming and ranching.
• Someone who lives by traveling from place to place.

Neolithic

• The most advanced stage of human society and organization.
• The later Stone Age.
• The early Stone Age.
• The principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.