Facts Quiz 1-50

______________is a way of life, ideas, customs, and skills of a group that are passed along through generations.

• Irrigation system

• Afterlife

• Religion

• Culture

As the _____________ evolved, letter shapes gradually changed into a very flexible writing system that resembles the one we use today.

• hieroglyphics

• alphabet

• cuneiform

• pictographs

_____________________ is stories, myths, and legends that are passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation.

• Aesop

• Cultural borrowing

• Oral tradition

• Romulus and Remus

__________________are human-made objects (tools, jewelry, toys, and coins) that teach about the customs and beliefs of people of the past.

• Artifacts

• Clay tablets

• Weapons

• City-states

Stone Age hunter-gatherers were ___________; they moved from place to place gathering food with the seasons.

• bipeds

• nomads

• farmers

• Neanderthal Man

A ________________is a society that has cities, a well organized government, and workers with specialized job skills.

• civilization

• city-state

• hominin

• trading hub

_________________________ is the transfer of ideas or customs from one culture to another.

• Lex Hortensia

• Code of laws

• Trading

• Cultural borrowing

Early civilizations developed near___________________ which provided food, water, transportation, trade, and irrigation.

• deserts

• river systems

• cities

• mountains

____________________is history that took place before the development of writing.

• Stele

• Cuneiform

• Prehistory

• Wheel

Scientists debate whether Homo sapiens began a large _______________to other regions of the world or independently evolved over time.

• migration

• nomads

• farming

• communities