World History Unit 1 Assessment

What is the time period known as the Stone Age?

• Ancient Age

• Metal Age

• Modern Age

• Prehistoric period characterized by the use of stone tools

Which era is characterized by the development of cave paintings?

• Paleolithic

• Neolithic

• Mesolithic

• Bronze Age

Name characteristics of civilization described below.

• Advanced technology and infrastructure.

• Nomadic lifestyle and lack of permanent settlements.

• Absence of written language and record-keeping systems.

• Complex social structures and organized systems of governance

Which era is associated with the invention of agriculture?

• Neolithic

• Industrial Revolution

• Mesolithic

• Paleolithic

Reorder the following

• Homo Erectus

• Homo Sapiens

• Neanderhalis/ Cro Magnon

• Homo Habilus

• Australopithecus

Click on the continent with evidence of earliest hominids

 Click on the continent where the earliest known cave paintings made by prehistoric humans were discovered

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age?

• Use of advanced technology
• Agricultural revolution
• Industrial revolution
• Use of simple tools

Correctly label the artifact and fossil

a

b

Fossil

Artifact

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Paleolithic period (<8000 BC)

,

(b) Neolithic Period (8000 B.C. – 4000 B.C.)

• making simple stone tools

• farming

• people built their own permanent houses

•  people lived as nomads

• hunting and gathering

• animals domesticated