Early Civilizations

During the Neolithic Revolution

• People learned to grow food
• People migrated to find food
• People were nomadic

Historians can learn about ancient civilizations by studying items such as weapons, tools, and pottery, which are called

• fossils.

• species.

• treasure.

• artifacts.

What change marked the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution?

• beginning of hunting and gathering

• man learned to write

• beginning of sedentary farming and the domestication of animals

• man built towns and cities

Cultural diffusion is BEST described as...

• the spreading of ideas, languages, and customs from one culture to another

• developing a social hierarchy

• preventing ideas from spreading from one group to another

• learning a foreign language

____ is an object made by people.

• Conclusion
• Archaeology
• Artifact
• Scholarly

A group of many different lands under one ruler was called...?

• empire

• kingdom

• country

• fiefdom

The Paleolithic Era is characterized by

• the earliest use of stone tools by humans.

• mass migration from North America to Africa.

• the first attempts at raising crops.

• development of clans and tribes.

What do historians call the earliest period of human history when people used stone to make tools and weapons?

• Ancient Age

• Bronze Age

• Neolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

Monotheism is the belief in

• one god

• many gods

• all gods

• all of the above

The belief in many gods.

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Nirvana