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Worksheets7th Grade Term One Review
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 20mins
What were the earliest tools made my humans? What were they for?
Sharpened rocks
Torches
Swords
Used for cutting meat
Used for building shelters
The theory that humans originated in Africa and migrated to Europe, Asia and beyond is...
Out of Africa theory
Prehistoric Human Migratory Anomaly
Agricultural Revolution
No such theory exists
Why are prehistoric remains discovered further from Africa typically going to be younger than those discovered within Africa?
Since humans migrated from Africa, older remains will be found in and around Africa
Humans aged much faster in Europe and Asia
Archaeologists are looking in the wrong places
Extra-terrestrial interference with human evolution
What are hardened remains of a living thing that are buried in sand/mud and have their materials replaced by rock?
Wicked old
Geological anomalies
Skeletons
Fossils
What are 3 ways of dating ancient remains?
Chemical dating
Online dating
DNA Dating
Radioactive dating
Carbon dating
Early religious practices and signs of belief in an afterlife can be seen in-
Early human warfare
Early burial practices
Early patterns of human interaction
Cave paintings
What did humans ritually adorn with gems, beads, and shrouds
Prehistoric dining room
Their dead
Sacred animals
Gifts to other humans
________ is the most important discovery by prehistoric humans
Farming
Fire
Language
Trading
The discovery of fire allowed humans to...
Cook
Migrate through colder climates
Scare away predators
Light each other on fire
A harsh, cold climate, glaciers, lack of resources and a constantly migrating food source are all traits of...
The Ice Age
An episode of Man vs Wild with Bear Grylls
The Neolithic Era
The reign of Hatshepsut
How did humans adapt to hunt larger prey?
Living in larger groups
Complex language
Better technology
Interpretative dance
Hunter-gatherers were...
Nomadic
Sedentary
Farmers
Merchants
What type of person owned only what they could carry?
Artisans
Hunter-gatherers
Farmers
Pharaohs
A complete change in thinking, working, and living is...
A revolution
A constitution
A rebellion
One heck of a weekend, am I right?
The Agricultural Revolution is considered a revolution because...
Humans stopped being hunter-gatherers and began to farm
Humans built massive cities
Neanderthals died out
Artwork became more complex
Having more than enough of a certain resource is...
Awesome
Surplus
Famine
Resource
A surplus is crucial to human development because...
It allows for job specialization
Humans could eat as much as they wanted without feeling guilty
Religion grew more complex
Farming methods could improve
Three requirements for a food surplus are...
Fertile Soil
Sunlight
Seeds, who would ever forget about seeds?
Fresh Water
A source of labor
A system that a community uses to distribute goods and services is...
A dictatorship
A monarchy
An economy
An oligarchy
If something can be used as needed, it is a ...
Farm
Resource
Surplus
Religion
Which of the following are features of civilization?
System of government
A military
Public Works
System of writing
System of laws
The the most rich/fertile farmland in the Middle East, between 2 rivers, allowing for easy trade of goods and exchange of cultures is the...
Fertile Crescent
Nile River
Plentiful Potato
Amazon Basin
This early empire utilized multiple forms of government to control a vast empire
The Babylonians
The Galactic Empire
The Assyrians
The Egyptians
This alphabet was different from Cuneiform in that it's symbols stood for individual sounds.
Phoenician
Sand Script
Heiroglyphis
Latin
Phoenicia's economy relied on...
Farming
Military conquest
Trade
They were self-sufficient
Hammurabi's Code was intended to..
Provide inspiration for George Lucas in creating the Galactic Empire
Keep society organized
Give Hammurabi complete control over society
Put justice in the hands of a select few
Nubia's geography...
Had little farmland
Had rich soil
Had cataracts throughout the Nile
Was heavily forested
Had lots of natural resources
Egypt and Nubia...
Were both polytheistic
Had a profitable trade relationship
Exchanged gods
Were peaceful neighbors
Were in the Middle East
This empire often had female rulers
Nubia
Assyria
Egypt
Babylonia
What did Egypt and Nubia trade?
Grains from Egypt
Natural resources from Nubia
Manufactured goods from Egypt
Slaves from both empires
Pharaohs tombs were adorned with art depicting daily life, religion, and riches because...
They could use it in the afterlife
Art is fun
Grave robbers needed stuff to rob
They wanted to retain examples of Egyptian life for future explorers
99% of Egyptians lived near the Nile because
It was the only inhabitable land in Egypt
There was dangerous warfare outside this region
They enjoyed the annual flooding
The gods told them to
It was the only way to avoid the sand people
The Nile was easy to trade along in Egypt because...
It was a river!
It was calm!
Trick question, the Nile was dangerous
It allowed easy access to the Persian Gulf
Nubia could not travel and trade along the Nile because...
Cataracts prevented it
Dangerous pirates
The Nile did not stretch into Nubia
They had no boats
