PAPWH Semester 1 Exam Review

All humans today belong to the ____ subspecies of human beings.

• ordinary
• Neanderthal
• Homo sapiens sapiens
• Australopithecines

Paleolithic peoples were nomads because they had no choice but to

• flee from the wooly mammoth
• move on after they had depleted the land
• escape the pollution they had caused
• follow animal migrations and vegetation cycles

The Paleolithic Age is

• also called the New Stone Age
• not proven to have existed
• usually known as the Primitive Age
• time in which humans used simple stone tools

The real change during the Neolithic Age was

• making tools out of metal

• the shift from hunting and gathering to growing food

• making tools out of stone

• using fire to cook

The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that humans

• had less control over their environment.

• could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities.

• could use animals as pets.

• could use fire to cook their food.

Food surpluses in the Neolithic farming village of Catalhuyuk

• made it possible for people to do things other than farming

• made the village susceptible to raids from nomadic tribes

• were not stored properly and spoiled, so people starved to death

• caused the entire population to stop farming

The use of metals marked the end of the Neolithic Age and a

• beginning to the Metal Age
• movement away from agriculture
• complete abandonment of other tools
• new level of human control over the environment and its resources

Historians have identified the basic characteristics of a civilization as:

• Vehicles, use of fire, nomadic lifestyle, hunting and gathering, and technology
• Villages, temples, trade, use of tools, use of fire, armies
• Use of metal, weapons, houses, food, religion, and art
• Cities, governments, religion, social structure, writing, and art

The term Homo Erectus means which of the following?

• Wise, wise human

• Upright human

• Tall Human

• Old Stone

The Neolithic Revolution can best be described as

• a political conflict between the Neolithic and Paleolithic peoples.

• the result of the youth taking control of the the tribes.

• the growing of crops and the taming of food-producing animals by early humans.

• the use of fire by early humans to change their environment.