The Beginning of Human Society Section 2

The earliest known period of human culture is the

• Bronze Age

• Stone Age

• Copper Age

• Platinum Age

A person who has no single settled home is a(n)

• ancestor

• civilian

• nomad

• human

Soil that is rich in the substances plants need is called

• dark

• rich

• fertile

• nutrient

A word that describes the process of taming and raising animals for human use is

• adopt

• tamicate

• shepard

• domesticate

People of the Old Stone Age survived by

• training dogs to help them hunt.

• gathering seeds to plant crops.

• hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

• building stone houses.

Between 1,400,000 and 500,000 years ago our ancestors learned how to

• grow their own food

• develop new and better hunting tools from bronze

• mine for gold

• create fire, which allowed them to live in cold climates

Our human ancestors originated in

• Peru and first migrated through South America

• North America and first migrated to Asia

• Africa and migrated to Europe and Asia

• Australia and migrated to South China

During the New Stone Age people became

• miners and metal workers

• nomads and Icemen

• farmers and pastoral nomads

• archaeologists and geographers

A term that refers both to modern humans and to earlier groups that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans.

• icemen

• nomads

• hominids

• neanderthals

People here discovered that planting the seeds of wild grasses would give them new crops of grasses.

• Africa

• Southwest Asia

• South America

• North America