End of Year Ancient World 1.0

For hundreds of thousands of years, Paleolithic peoples relied on ________ for their daily food.

• supermarkets

• agriculture

• raiding and looting

• hunting and gathering

Paleolithic peoples did more than just survive. The cave paintings of large animals found at _____________ are examples of the cultural activity of Paleolithic peoples.

• The Museum of Natural History in New york

• The Louvre, Paris

• Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain

• Salisbury, England

Which is NOT true: Neolithic farming villages like Jericho and Çatalhüyük...

• didn't grow peppers and potatoes

• had powerful religious priesthoods

• had multi-story buildings and city walls

• had magicians who could control the weather

Craftspeople in western Asia discovered that mixing molten copper and tin formed...

• antimony

• a powerful acid

• bronze

• aluminum

Once Neolithic people had settled agriculture and a surplus of food, the next step was some people ...

• becoming artisans specializing in crafts

• became big game hunters to prove their masculinity

• began writing and performing comic and tragic plays

• got very lazy and refused to do work

What neolithic craft item was primarily used for food and water storage, but became a medium for art, and an important trade good?

• steel knives

• clay pottery

• buffalo bladders

• baskets