History Alive! The Ancient World Chapter One Quiz

This is the study of the distant past from the earliest humans through the first great civilizations.

• Ancient History

• Social Scientist

• Prehistoric

• Ritual

These are scholars who study human history

• Ancient History

• Social Scientist

• Prehistoric

• Ritual

This means before written history

• Ancient History

• Social Scientist

• Prehistoric

• Ritual

This means related to a ceremony

• Ancient History

• Social Scientist

• Prehistoric

• Ritual

What do archeologists do?

• dig up the past, examine objects.

• record the past, especially the first thousand years of written records.

• make maps, and study geological features of the earth.

• they make tools

What do historians do?

• dig up the past, examine objects.

• record the past, especially the first thousand years of written records.

• make maps, and study geological features of the earth.

• they make tools

What do Geographers do?

• dig up the past, examine objects.

• record the past, especially the first thousand years of written records.

• make maps, and study geological features of the earth.

• they make tools

Write in.

An object made or used by people in the past is called an __________________ .

Check all three History detectives.

• Geographer

• Archeologist

• Planner

• Historian

What do Scientists believe about the painting of animals by early humans.

Check all that apply

• Artists were trying to capture the animals "magical powers"

• It was a type of ritual

• Caveman might have worshipped animals

• Caveman painting animals for fun