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Unit 1 Development of Civilization - Vocabulary

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

agriculture

b)

domestication

c)

culture

d)

technology

2.

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?

a)

civilization

b)

culture

c)

government

d)

history

3.

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

a)

culture

b)

history

c)

civilization

d)

specialization

4.

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

a)

cuneiform

b)

history

c)

technology

d)

Sumer

5.

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

a)

domestication

b)

agriculture

c)

civilization

d)

Neolithic Age

6.

What is the action or manner of controlling or regulating a nation, state, community, or people?

a)

government

b)

specialization

c)

culture

d)

civilization

7.

What is the chronological record of important or public events?

a)

history

b)

prehistory

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

Paleolithic Age

8.

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?

a)

history

b)

prehistory

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

Paleolithic Age

9.

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?

a)

history

b)

prehistory

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

Paleolithic Age

10.

What is the period of time before written records?

a)

history

b)

prehistory

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

Paleolithic Age

11.

What is the movement of people to a new area in order to find better living conditions?

a)

migration

b)

nomadic

c)

sedentary

d)

specialization

12.

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

a)

migration

b)

nomadic

c)

sedentary

d)

specialization

13.

What is the act of inhabiting the same locality throughout life; not migratory nor nomadic?

a)

migration

b)

nomadic

c)

sedentary

d)

specialization

14.

What is the process of becoming expert in a particular subject, skill, or job?

a)

specialization

b)

culture

c)

government

d)

sedentary

15.

What is the accepted first civilization of mankind developed in Mesopotamia around 3,600 BCE ?

a)

Sumer

b)

Neolithic Age

c)

Paleolithic Age

d)

history

16.

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

a)

technology

b)

cuneiform

c)

agriculture

d)

domestication