Assessment Questions

How do scientists determine how old organic artifacts are?

Describe the Paleolithic Age, including when it occurred.

What important changes in human life were caused by the Neolithic Revolution ?

How did the Neolithic Revolution change the dynamic between men and women?

How did physical geographic factors, such as river valleys, and human geographic factors, such as the development of agriculture and cities, encourage the development of river valley civilizations?

How did major river valley civilizations influence the development of the classical civilizations?

What were the mathematical, scientific, and technological innovations of the Sumerians?

What are the similarities in what archaeology and anthropology teach about prehistoric humans, and what are the differences?

How does a culture become a civilization ?

How did the use of fire help to ensure the survival of prehistoric peoples?