Chapter 2 Test

According to historians, the time before writing is called

• The Neolithic Age

• The Stone Age

• Prehistory

• The Dark Age

Society is a community of people who share a WHAT?

• region

• religion

• language

• common culture

The Middle Stone Age is also called the

• Paleolithic Era

• Mesolithic Era

• Ice Age

• Neolithic Era

How do scientists think early people migrated out of Africa and into new places?

• they drove

• they crossed land bridges

• they flew

• they took boats

What is a hominid?

• a collection of ancient bones

• an early ancestor of humans

• a kind of tool

• a fishing spear

What did farming allow stone age people to do?

• travel

• hunt animals

• build permanent homes

• create art

Scientists think that language developed for all of the following reasons except

• for creating art

• for hunting purposes

• for handing out food

• for forming relationships

What is a megalith?

• A large mammal that looks like an elephant

• a king

• a huge stone used as a monument

• a temple made out of wood

What divided the Stone Age into three periods?

• Their hairstyles

• The tools they used

• The types of crops they planted

• The language they spoke

What changed people's lives in the Neolithic Era?

• Agriculture

• Hunting and Gathering

• cars

• bows and arrows