Unit Two Vocabulary Quiz

What is the definition of the Agricultural Revolution?

• The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture

• The study of the past through material remains

• The cultivation of soil for the growing of crops

• The process of adapting wild plants & animals for human use

What is the definition of Archaeology?

• The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture

• The study of the past through material remains

• The cultivation of soil for the growing of crops

• The process of adapting wild plants & animals for human use

What is the definition of Artifact?

• The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture

• The study of the past through material remains

• Any object made or modified by man

• The process of adapting wild plants & animals for human use

What is the definition of Civilization?

• The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture

• groups of people with no permanent home

• The cultivation of soil for the growing of crops

• A human society that reaches an advanced stage of social and cultural development and organization

What is the definition of Domestication?

• The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture

• Different groups of people and ways of life

• The process of adapting wild plants & animals for human use

• A human society that reaches an advanced stage of social and cultural development and organization

An early ancestor of humans that developed in Africa & moved around the world is called:

• humans

• homo sapien

• hominid

• homophone

First hominid to use stone tools; lived 2.3 - 1.5 million years ago:

• homo sapien

• homo erectus

• homo habilis

• neandertal

Referred to as “Upright Man”; used advanced tools and fire; lived 1.6 million - 80,000 years ago

• Homo habilis

• Homo erectus

• Homo sapien

• Hunter-gatherer

Modern Humans; oldest known fossils dated 300,000 years ago to present

• Homo sapien

• Homo erectus

• Hominids

• Hunter-gatherer

Early humans who hunt wild animals and gather wild plants for food to survive; they follow their food

• Hominids

• Homo sapien

• Hunter-gatherer

• Nomad