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What are three characteristics of the Paleolithic Age? Choose the BEST choice!

• Hunting and gathering, Nomadic, uncivilized.

• Hunting and gathering.

• Nomadic warderers.

• Farmers and Herders.

A person who moves from place to place in search of food

• Migration
• Culture
• Nomad
• Artisan

Which best describes the nomadic lifestyle of the Paleolithic people? 

• They lived in large villages, where they raised crops and livestock.
• They migrated, or moved, from place to place
• They stayed in one place, living in caves and beneath rock shelters.
• They lived in small villages and farmed the land. 

Scientists believe that the earliest humans evolved in and migrated from which continent? 

• Europe 
• North America 
• Asia 
• Africa 

Agriculture made it necessary for people to develop which of the following?

• ways to move water to their fields such as channels, canals, and dams 
• language
• stone tools 
• ways to work together to bring down large animals like mammoths 

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds...

• Hierarchy

• Cunieform

• Hieroglyphics

• Silt

First known written laws

• Ziggurat

• Cuneiform

• Code of Hammurabi

• Epic of Gilgamesh

Land between two rivers

• Cultural Hearth

• Mesopotamia

• Cuneiform

• City-state

Read pages 284-285 of your textbook.

Which statement below describes the Mandate of Heaven?

• the belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods.

• the belief that the Chinese kings could remain in charge for ever.

• the belief that the Chinese kings could carry out religious ceremonies to please the gods.

• the belief that the Chinese kings could divide the kingdom into territories

Read pages 284-285 of your textbook.

Which of the statements below is an idea described by the Mandate of Heaven?

• The king would be replaced every four years.

• Any person against the king would be executed.

• The person chosen by the gods would govern honestly and well.

• All people of the kingdom could vote for a new king.