Topics 1-3 Exam (Pearson) World History

______________________ refers to the period of time before writing was invented.

• Renaissance

• Civilization

• Neolithic Period

• Prehistory

________________________ refers to the study of past people and cultures through their material remains.

• Astrology

• Zoology

• Archaeology

• Geology

The Leakeys discovered ancient stone tools in a gorge in which country?

• Kenya

• Tanzania

• Egypt

• Ethiopia

What is technology?

• the study of past people and cultures through their material remains

• the skills and tools people use to meet basic needs and wants

• the study of people and their societies

• a method used for dating material remains

Which objects provided anthropologists with the first clues about prehistoric life?

• jewelry, architecture, and weapons

• footprints, bones, and tools

• coins, tombstones, and tax records

• pottery, weavings, and artwork

Which early hominid group was the first to use fire and the hand ax?

• Neanderthals

• Homo sapiens

• Homo erectus

• Homo habilis

Which time period is being discussed in the text?

These early farmers were the first humans to domesticate plants and animals—that is, to raise them in a controlled way that makes them best suited to human use. Plant domestication may have begun with food gatherers realizing that seeds scattered on the ground would produce new plants the next year. Animal domestication may have begun with people deciding to round up the animals they usually hunted.

• Old Stone Age

• Industrial Revolution

• Neolithic Revolution

• Paleolithic Period

The Old Stone Age belief that spirits and forces reside in animals, objects, or dreams is known as ________.

• cultural diffusion

• animism

• domestication

• polytheism

Which village is being described in the text?

Although the village was tiny—about the size of a few soccer fields—a few thousand people lived in it. The village was surrounded by a huge wall, which suggests that it had a government or leader who was able to organize a large construction project.

• Lamu

• Jericho

• Malindi

• Sofala

Complete the sentence with the best answer.

________, which was one of the oldest villages in the world, is described in the text.

The village covered about three times more land than Jericho and included hundreds of rectangular mud-brick houses, all connected and all about the same size.

• Turkana

• Çatalhüyük

• Johanson

• Olduvai