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WorksheetsEarly Humans
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 20mins
What type of scientists study human society
Social Scientists
Archeologist
Historian
What do archeologists do?
(a)
To understand what animals lived where, scientists used..?
Cave art
Bones
Fur
Paw prints
Which species of people knew how to make tools
Homo Erectus (Upright Man)
Homo Sapiens (Wise Man)
Homo Habilis (Handy Man)
Spear Throwers
When finding bones in one area, scientists concluded that homonins lived in...?
(a)
Long, strong leg bones were a trait that the (a) had which suited them well for traveling.
Large brains helped (a) survive, giving them the ability to design better tools.
What invention helped hominin groups kill animals from a distance?
Bow and Arrow
Spear Thrower
Knives
Rock Thrower
Hunting and gathering helped people in the (a) get their food
The soil in the ___________ was good for crops which led to many early settlements.
Harvest Crescent
Fertile Moon
Harvest Moon
Fertile Crescent
Early people had a stable food supply when farmers began to raise ...?
Plants
Animals
Tobacco
Coco Beans
Individuals developed a variety of skills when communities produced more to meet their needs by...?
Flooding irrigation systems
Making tools
Dividing up the work
Building walls
Sumerians had city-states. Why did they get this name?
The increase of populations caused what in the Zagros foothills?
Food Shortages
Flooding
Droughts
To prevent floods in ancient Sumer, they...?
Prayed to the gods
Clogged up irrigation systems
Created a dam next to a lake
Built a levee beside a river
Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?
They farmed potatos
They cooperated to keep the water systems working
They protected each other
They wrote laws for each other
The Sumerian belief was that the (a) was supported by the gods helped strengthen the social order
Who wrote down the laws in Sumerian government?
Scribes
Kings
What types of instruments were used for entertainment?
Drums
Pipes
Lyres
Guitars
Feather Strings
Written records were evidence that was found by archaeologists to show that _________ were not prehistoric...?
The People
Cuniform
Written Records
Cave Paintings
Compared to the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrian empires, what did they have that the Sumerians lacked that made them a civilization and not an empire?
One person ruled several groups
One farmer that provided all crops
One government ruled several groups.
One slave that provided all crops
Collecting tribute from conquered peoples gave the Akkadians the resources to build their...?
(a)
What did the Assyrians use to bring water to the city?
Aqueducts
Irrigation systems
To protect the city from attacks, Nebuchadnezzer built two _____, some _______, and a _______ around his capital
Walls
Churches
Towers
Moat
Cities
The biggest problem for all four Mesopotamian empires was controlling...?
(a)
