Social Studies Final Examination

On which continent do archaeologists believe humans began?

• Australia

• Africa

• Antarctica

• North America

Migration is...

• the movement of people from one place to another.

• the creation of tools from stone.

• traveling to visit family members.

• hunting animals.

The Stone Age people showed that they were capable of complex thoughts and actions through this.

• Fossils

• Early works of art.

• Bones

Humans did shift from hunting and gathering to this.

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• Artisians Crafting

• Fishing

• Farming

Nomads tried to explain the mysteries of birth and death by doing this.

• Domesticating animals

• Hunting animals

• Decorating their dead with jewelry

Desert, grasslands, jungles, & forests are an example of..

• environments

• climates

• equator

When people migrated, they had to _______, or change their way of life, to suit their new environment.

• adapt

• communicate

• research

Because the Mesopotamians were able to grow crops,

• the Mesopotamians had a difficult time eating.

• the Mesopotamians were then able to build their city-states.

• the Mesopotamians were able to build larger civilizations.

How were Mesopotamians able to become traders?

• The farmers were able to produce more food than they needed.

• The farmers didn't produce enough food.

• The farmers only made enough food for the highest social class.

What was a Ziggurat?

• cube structures built of wood

• pyramidal structures built of sun-baked bricks

• pyramidal structures built of wood