8th grade history Ch 1 quiz

What term means before written history?

• prehistory

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• None of the given answers

What is the study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind?

• Archaeology

• Anthropology

• prehistory

• none of the above

Archaeologists learn about past societies by studying objects made by humans. What term has been given to these objects?

• fossils

• artifacts

• Anthropologies

• None of the given answers

What is the study of human life and culture?

• prehistory

• anthropology

• archaeology

• none of the given answers

These are rock-like remains of biological organisms.

• fossils

• artifacts

• hominids

• none of the above

What is a term given to a humanlike creature that walked upright?

• hominid

• Paleolihic

• Neolithic

• None of the above

This is the idea that humanity originated out of Africa and migrated to the rest of the world.

• "out of Africa" theory

• Theory of Evolution

• Creation theory

• None of the given answers

Which of the following means "old stone" and is used to designate the early period of human history in which humans used simple stone tools?

• Paleolithic age

• Neolithic Age

• Ice Age

• None of the given answers

Which of the following best describes humans during the paleolithic age?

• They were hunter and gatherers

• They domesticated animals and used farming techniques in order to survive

• They used iron tools

• None of the given answers

Which of the following is the age in which thick blankets of ice covered parts of Europe, Asia, and the Americas

• Cold age

• Bronze age

• Paleolithic age

• None of the given answers