WH Quiz Chp.1

The Old Stone Age is also called the

• Neolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

Permanent settlements were built when people began to

• Raise crops and domesticate animals

• Hunt and gather

Once people adopted agriculture the world population ______ because agriculture provided a more reliable food supply than did hunting and gathering.

• Grew

• Shrank

The Egyptian religion was considered _______ because they worshiped _______ god(s).

• monotheistic, many

• polytheistic, many

What two major rivers were important to Mesopotamia?

• Tigris/Euphrates

• Amazon/Nile

Ancient Egyptians believed their king was

• A representative of the gods

• A god

The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that humans

• could use animals as pets.

• could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities.

Early humans hunted ______ and ______ wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts and may have even scavenged to survive.

• Animals, gathered

• Other humans, traded

Early agricultural societies can best be described as

• Nomadic

• Settled communities

All ancient civilizations, such as Sumer, Egypt, Persia, India, China, Greece, and Rome emerged in:

• Deserts

• River valleys