Unit 1 SA Review

The sources above raised differing arguments on the benefits of the hunter- gatherer lifestyle in the Paleolithic Era and the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic Revolution.

Which of the following most correctly summarizes the differences between the sources?

• A.      Source A discusses the benefits of the agricultural lifestyle, while source B presents the hunter-gatherer lifestyle as a complex struggle for survival.

   A.      Source A discusses the benefits of the agricultural lifestyle, while source B presents the hunter-gatherer lifestyle as a complex struggle for survival.

   

•     Source A discusses the hunter-gatherer lifestyle as being preferable because a balance of life that included an egalitarian community. Source B discusses the agricultural lifestyle as being a system that created social inequality.

•      Both sources discuss the egalitarian lifestyle of the Neolithic Revolution in positive terms.

•      Source A reveals the outcomes of a civilization that still exists today, while source be tackles the outcomes of a civilization that has a long past

Which of the following quotes supports the argument that agriculture was the worst mistake in the history of the human race

•    “Hunter-gatherers chose agriculture to increase the population at the expense of their quality of life.”

•      “Paleolithic Era the diet of hunter-gatherers, a variety of wild plants and animals, provides more protein and a better balance of nutrients.”

• The increase in food led to a major increase in population

•   “This system created a social divide of people, where men began to be in charge of society called patriarchy.”

   

  1.       Which of the following completes the statement:

Labor specialization includes which of the following that describes how it advanced the quality of life for the early humans? (choose three statements)

•       Food surplus allowed the trade of food for people who specialize in certain skills.

• It is a characteristic of “people with skills were valued more highly than others and acquired more possessions”.

•     It created an equal society based on system of beliefs.

•      It created the elites (religious leaders and rulers) who created and enforced the rules.

The creation of civilizations led to social inequality and created a social hierarchy where people at the top had more possessions and people at the bottom had little possessions. This means that:

•      People lived a nomadic lifestyle and migrated from one place to another place.

    

• People had little possessions in the Neolithic Era

• People were split into different classes based on accumulating more possessions.

• Language was an early invention of the Neolithic Era where people used it to trade with other communities.

    Which of the following two statements are true?

•   Nomadic means people can move around to hunt and gather food.

• Sedentary means that people permanently settled in one place to cultivate and modify their environment.

• Hunter-gathers will die if they do not grow their food from place to place.

• Diseases spread easily in the Paleolithic Era.

Which statement explains why hunter-gatherer communities lived longer and moved around in smaller groups.

• Hunter-gathers produced food high in calories and never starved.

•   Hunter-gatherers eat a variety of wild plants and hunted animals that provided more protein and a better

  balance of nutrients.

•      Pathogens was the number one killer which kept the hunter-gather communities smaller.

•   The early humans used the invention of agriculture to create an elite society.

     ” Farmers traded excess food too other people who specialized in certain skills. Society became complicated. Artisans, warriors, and elites (rules and religious leaders). The creation of new jobs was known as labor specialization.

 

According to the statement about the Neolithic Revolution in order for society to become so complicated it

•   required people with specialized skills in different jobs.

• was a revolution fought between the hunter gatherers and the farmers.

• enslaved people who cultivated plants and domesticated animals.

• Farmers were not allowed to trade food surplus but counted upon their own skills to build wealth.

Which statement identifies who hunter-gathers were in the Paleolithic Era?

 

•   People planted seeds and began civilization in 3200 BCE (Before the Common Era).

• People who domesticated animals for food.

• People who often moved around following their food because they were nomadic

•    People who built empire using the early tools from the Paleolithic Era.

  Which of the following is an example of a physical geography studied by a geographer

• Patterns of interrelationships between people and places and how they interact with each other

•   The war in Afghanistan and its impacts on the military and the use of weapons.

• How the range of mountains affects travel between two cultures because it makes travel difficult.

•   Chemical manufacturing caused heavy air pollution in many regions.

Identify the location for #5

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Middle East

• North Africa

• Western Europe