Lesson Quiz 1-2: Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution

What do historians call the general early period of human history?

• Ancient Age

• Bronze Age

• Iron Age

• Stone Age

What is the best example of how an advance in the use of technology made life less difficult for Paleolithic people?

• They hunted and gathered.

• They discovered how to use fire.

• They lived near water sources.

• They used caves as shelters.

One of the most important technologies used by the Paleolithic people was

• tools.

• language.

• art.

• religion.

What advancement during the Paleolithic Age made communication between people easier?

• the use of physical gestures

• the development of written language

• the development of spoken language

• the discovery that crushed rock and animal fat makes paint

What is a nomad?

• a person who moves from place to place

• a happy person

• an early villager

• a Neolithic farmer

Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the Earth

• Ice Ages

• Bronze Age

• Stone Age

• Golden Age

The earliest humans got their food by...

• growing crops

• raising chickens and cows

• hunting animals and gathering berries and nuts

• going to the grocery store

During the most recent Ice Age, the water level of the oceans was lowered, which exposed a land bridge from Asia to North America.

• true

• false

Early people used fire to cook food.

• True

• False

What material did Stone Age people use to make tools and weapons from?

• Stone
• Bone
• Wood
• All of these are correct