Ch 2 Test review

Historians call the time before there was writing

• Pre Writing

• Pre History

• Mesolithic Era

• Paleothic Era

is someone who studies cultures and their origins or where they came from.

• Hunter gatherer

• Ancestor

• Anthropologists

One of the key steps in human development was the ability to

• Ability to talk

• walk freely on two legs.

• Ability to write

• All the above

Scientists believed that the Homo erectus ____________ walked completely upright of straight

• Ancestor

• Hominid

• Human

Every person alive today belongs to this group. We are all _____________

• Homo sapiens.

• Homo erectus

The first humans and their ancestors lived  during a long  period of time called_________

• The Stone Age

• The Mesolithic Era

• The Neolithic Era

The first part of the Stone Age is called the_______________, or the Old Stone Age. During this time people used stone tools.

• Mesolithic Era

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

The ____________was made from flint stone and was used to break tree limbs, to dig, and to cut animal hides.

• Bow and Arrow

• Spear

• Hand ax

• All the above

_____________made it easier for people to resolve issues like how to distribute food.

• Fighting

• Language

• Walking

• All the above

1.6 million years ago many places around the world began to experience long periods of freezing weather. These freezing times were called the______________

• Ice Age

• Cold Age

• Stone Age