Pre-Civilization Quiz

Which vocabulary word means any tool or invention used to complete a task?

• artifact

• computer

• vehicle

• technology

What do historians call the general early period of human history?

• Ancient Age

• Bronze Age

• Iron Age

• Stone Age

What is a hunter-gatherer?

• A human who hunts for their food.
• A human who hunts animals and gathers plants.
• A human who only travels from place to place.
• People who can't read.

What is true about hunter gatherer roles?

• Men hunted both gathered

• Both hunted and women gathered

• Both hunted and gathered

• Men hunted and women gathered

Which of the following is an example of Paleolithic technology?

• flint ax head

• a tree branch

• an iron pot

• written language

What is the best example of how an advance in the use of technology made life less difficult for Paleolithic people?

• They hunted and gathered.

• They discovered how to use fire.

• They lived near water sources.

• They used caves as shelters.

Why were early man considered nomadic? Select two correct answers.

• They settled down and lived in one place,

• They didn't live in one place.

• Their shelters were permanent.

• They were constantly on the move in search of animals to hunt

During Mesolithic period humans transformed from ..................to farmers.

• hunter

• gatherers

• both a and b are correct

• both a and b are wrong

Mesolithic period is also called...........age

• First stone age

• Old stone age

• New stone age

• Middle stone age

The process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use

• genetic engineering
• cloning
• human genome
• domestication