Chapter 1 Review

Women went out to hunt while men gathered fruits and nuts.

• True

• False

Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa.

• True

• False

Paleolithic people’s tools were made of what material?

• iron

• stone

• glass

• bronze

Which term describes music, language, clothing, and other aspects of human life?

• artifacts

• culture

• technology

• government

Which of the following is an artifact?

• a fossilized skull of a homonin

• a footprint of a chimpanzee

• a dinosaur bone

• a spear point made of stone

Which of the following is an important way that hunter-gatherers got food?

• raising animals such as goats

• making flour from wheat

• gathering fruits and nuts

• growing vegetables

Paleolithic people created metal tools and used guns to hunt.

• True

• False

What do archaelogists learn about early modern humans by studying their artifacts?

• What stories they told their children.

• When and how early modern humans lived.

• What religion they practiced.

• How tall they were.

Why was the agricultural revolution significant in human history?

• People learned to work together to kill large animals.

• People became farmers and no longer had to depend on hunting and gathering.

• More people began living as nomads and were able to travel to better climates.

• People began living in smaller family groups and depending less on others.

Why are primary sources important to understanding human history?

• They are always passed down orally from one generation to the next.

• They provide historians’ interpretations of past events.

• They are based on secondary sources.

• They give descriptions of events by a person who lived through them.