6th Grade Review Paleo-Egypt

True or False: Paleolithic people lived with dinosaurs.

• True

• False

What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?

• Old Stone Age

• New Stone Age

• Age of the Cavemen

• Age of Mr. Starry

True or False: Paleolithic people farmed for food.

• True

• False

True or False: Paleolithic people did not produce artwork.

• True

• False

_______________ is the New Stone Age from about 8000 BC to about 4000 BC

• Neolithic Age
• Paleolithic Age
• Current Modern Age
• DMS Age

What change marked the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution? 

• beginning of hunting and gathering
• man learned to write
• man began farming
• man built towns and cities

Which of the following happened when man began to farm?

• There were communities where people could do jobs other than farming jobs 
• They had more meat in their diet
• They were constantly attacked by wild animals
• They had to move from place to place following crops

What was the purpose of the scribe?

• Rule the people and make the laws
• Develop the economy
• Teach the people about religion
• Write and record information

Why was writing developed in Mesopotamia?

• Keep business records
• Write folk tales
• Write holy texts
• Keep a record of laws

As a result of irrigation in the early Mesopotamian civilizations, people ____________.

• Learned how to raise farm animals
• Could supply water to crops
• Developed a new religion
• Could change the weather