Development of Civilization Review

What is the cultivation of land, and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life?

• agriculture

• domestication

• culture

• technology

What is the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced; the society, culture, and way of life of a particular area?

• civilization

• culture

• government

• history

What are the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group?

• culture

• history

• civilization

• specialization

What is the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia; the first known writing system of mankind?

• cuneiform

• history

• technology

• Sumer

What is the process of controlling wild animals and plants into cultivated forms according to the interests of people?

• domestication

• agriculture

• civilization

• Neolithic Age

What is the time relating to the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed, and mankind used agriculture as the main way to obtain their food supply?

• history

• prehistory

• Neolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

What is the time relating to the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used, and mankind obtained most food through hunting and gathering?

• history

• prehistory

• Neolithic Age

• Paleolithic Age

What is living a life of a wandering, and having no permanent home?

• migration

• nomadic

• sedentary

• specialization

What do you call any tool or method which is used to improve the life of mankind ?

• technology

• cuneiform

• agriculture

• domestication

Cuneiform is the writing system of the ...

• Ancient Chinese

• Ancient Indians

• Ancient Mesopotamians

• Ancient Egyptians