Prehistory Unit Quiz

The Stone Age is when people made tools and weapons from stone. The earliest part of the Stone Age is the _____ Age. It began about 2.5 million years ago and ended around 8,000BC.

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Ice Age

• Bronze Age

_____ is a hard stone with sharp edges.

Paleolithic people made sharp knives and ax heads.

• Steel

• Flint

• Bronze

• Silver

During the Paleolithic Age, people learned how to make ____. Once people had ____, they could eat cooked food.

• earth

• water

• air

• fire

What is the biggest achievement of the Neolithic Age?

• agriculture

• copper tools

• flint axes

• spoken language

How did agriculture change the lifestyle of the early peoples?

• They continued to hunt and gather.

• They stopped farming.

• They were still nomads.

• They began to settle.

Farmers grew more food than they could eat. They began to trade food for things they could not make themselves. They could do tasks that matched their talents. This is called _______.

• surplus

• grain

• specialization

• economics

In western Asia, people discovered that mixing tin and copper created ______.

• bronze

• silver

• gold

• flint

What does it mean to tame animals and raise them to be used by humans?

• domesticate

• artisan

• prehistory

• Neolithic age

Choose all things that occurred only during the Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age). You may choose multiple answers.

• artisans/craftsmen

• discovery of fire

• nomads

• farming

• cave paintings

Choose all things that occurred during the Neolithic Age(New Stone Age) You can choose multiple answers.

• farming/agriculture

• irrigation systems

• first use of stone tools

• cave dwellers

• tamed and used animals for things like milk, meat and wool