Prehistory

What is the time period before a written language was created?

• History
• Climate
• Prehistory
• Environment

Who were the earliest humans?

• Hunter gatherers
• Farmers
• Cobblers
• Bakers

When scientists study prehistoric people, what do they look at?

• Diaries
• Map
• Artifacts
• Stone Tablets

If a person travels from place to place, without a permanent home, what are they?

• Domesticated
• Landform
• Archaeologist
• Nomad

Cave art is not…..

• Shelter decoration
• Hunting ritual
• religious ritual
• written language

What word means taming plants and animals to make them useful for humans?

• Irrigate
• Landform
• Domestication
• Geography

Why did hunter gatherers migrate?

• To make better tools
• To explore the river valleys
• To find food
• To find better shelter

Once people learned how to raise plants and animals they no longer had to:

• Hunt
• Fish
• Swim
• Migrate

What important discovery separates the Paleolithic and Mesolithic eras of the Stone Age?

• Fire
• Agriculture
• Tools 
• Weapons

Where did early humans choose to settle?

• Near the coastline
• Near mountains
• Near rivers
• Near the deserts