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Neolithic Times Quiz - BC/BCE AD/CE

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What comes first BCE or CE?

a)

BCE

b)

CE

2.

What does BCE stand for?

(a)  

3.

What did AD change to?

a)

BCE

b)

CE

c)

BC

4.

What does AD stand for?

a)

Anno Domini

b)

After Death

c)

Before Christ

d)

Before Common Era

5.

What does CE stand for?

a)

Christ Era

b)

Common Era

c)

Before Common Era

d)

None of the above

6.

How many years are between 1500 BCE and 1500 CE?

a)

1500

b)

2500

c)

3000

d)

None of the above

7.

What does domestication mean?

a)

To live in shelters and not be nomadic.

b)

To trade with others and begin civilization.

c)

To begin to create jobs.

d)

To tame animals and plants for human use.

8.

What is a revolution? In the context of a farming "revolution".

a)

It refers to change that greatly affects many areas of life.

b)

It refers to the battles farmers engaged in for rights.

c)

It refers to a wheel which spins a full time around.

d)

None of the above

9.

Jericho and Catal Huyuk was the first known settlements. Jericho dates back to 8000 BCE and Jericho dates back to 6700-5700 BCE. Which one is the eldest?

a)

Catal Huyuk

b)

Jericho

10.

What is specialization?

a)

The use of metal tools and weapons.

b)

Taming of plants and animals for human use.

c)

Development of different jobs.

d)

None of the above.

11.

Which of the following are characteristics of the Neolithic?

(Check all that apply)

a)

They began farming.

b)

They were sedentary and not nomadic.

c)

They were nomadic and had to hunt for food.

d)

They began to create different types of jobs.

12.

What was added to copper to make it into bronze?

a)

gold

b)

tin

c)

aluminum

d)

none of the above

13.

How did they get the copper out of the rocks and make tools and weapons out of them?

a)

They heated the rocks.

b)

They broke open the rocks.

c)

They used the shapes they found.

d)

None of the above.

14.

Because the farmers produced more than enough to eat they had a _____________ of food.

a)

surplus

b)

depletion

c)

scarcity

d)

None of the above

15.

Because the farmers produced more than enough to eat they began to (a)   their extra foodstuffs.