Topic 1: Origins of Civilization

Which phrase defines the time called prehistory?

• before computers

• before the year 0

• before written records

• before the year 2000

Which describes a way that early hunter-gatherers got food?

• They used chickens to lay eggs.

• They used tools to kill animals.

• They grew crops on farms.

• They grew seeds and nuts.

What is an artifact?

• an imprint of a plant from long ago

• the remains of a person from long ago

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  a food prepared or eaten by humans

• an object made or used by humans

What are geologists able to tell archaeologists about fossils?

• the beliefs of early people

• how early people lived

• 
  how old they are

• what they were used for

What does an archaeologist study?

• how people act when they are together

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  the things that people in the past left behind

• what happens if certain chemicals are combined

• why people need certain foods to survive

What happens during a migration?

• People stay in one place and home for many years.

• People move places and homes with the seasons.

• People move from their homeland to a new place.

• 
  People welcome new people to their home.

How did the last ice age affect human migration?

• It created land bridges where ocean had once been.

• 
  It required people to create new shelters.

• 
  It required people to form larger communities

• 
  It required people to form larger communities

Why did modern humans have to adapt?

• They had to make new cave paintings.

• 
  They had to adjust to new environments.

• They had to change their belief systems.

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  They had to move to Africa.

How did the world change when modern humans populated it?

• There were humans on every island.

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  There were humans only in Africa.

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  There were humans in most regions of the world.

• There were humans just in warm places.

Which group is thought to be the first to bury its dead?

• hunter-gatherers

• Neanderthals

• Homo sapiens

• early Stone Age humans