Early Humans Unit Test

Evidence of the earliest humans has been found on the continent of

• Asia

• Australia

• Africa

• Europe

People who regularly move from place to place to survive. They traveled in groups, or bands, of about 20 or 30 members.

• Nomads

• Farmers

• Gypsies

• Settlers

Special buildings that were holy places. These places were decorated with images of gods and goddesses. 

• shrines
• monoliths
• churches
• labyrinths 

The latest period of the Stone Age.

• Neolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Renaissance Period

• Age of Enlightenment

Craftsmen in western Asia discovered that mixing copper and tin formed bronze. A major technological breakthrough and started the ___________ ________.

• Bronze Age

• Stone Age

• Age of Aquarius

• Paleolithic Age

Prior to the invention of bronze, tools were mainly made from stone and bone.

• True

• False

Two important contributions of the Paleolithic humans were:

• oil and chocolate

• fire and tools

• the wheel and laws

• medicine and philosophy

Historians consider the ___________________ to be the most important event in human history.

• Agricultural Revolution

• Neolithic Revolution

• Invention of the Wheel

• Birth of the first human

The earliest period of the Stone Age.

• Paleolithic Age

• New Age

• Neolithic Age

• Age of Enlightenment

What geographic feature did early humans settle around?

• River Valleys

• Mountains

• Forrests

• Plains