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PREHISTORY 4ºEP

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which one is not a period of History?

a)

Ancient History

b)

Modern Age

c)

Paleolithic

d)

Prehistory

e)

Early Modern Age

2.

A century means...

a)

10 years

b)

100 years

c)

1000 years

d)

50 years

3.

What's the meaning of A.D.?

a)

Years and centuries after Jesus was born

b)

Years after Jesus was born

c)

Centuries after Jesus was born

d)

Years before Jesus was born

4.

What's the meaning of B.C?

a)

centuries before Jesus was born

b)

years before Jesus was born

c)

Centuries and years after Jesus was born

d)

Centuries and years before Jesus was born

5.

Ancient History finished when...

a)

people invented writing

b)

French Revolution happened

c)

Columbus discovered America

d)

Roman Empire fell

6.

Modern Age finished with ...

a)

French Revolution

b)

Roman Empire

c)

War of Independence

d)

Writing

7.

Early Modern Age finished..

a)

Columbus discovered America

b)

Roman Empire

c)

French Revolution

d)

Writing

8.

Middle Ages finished when...

a)

Columbus discovered Africa

b)

Columbus discovered America

c)

Around 1492

d)

In 15th century

9.

Prehistory is divided into...

a)

2 periods

b)

3 periods

c)

1 period

d)

4 periods

10.

Nomadic means...

a)

people live in permanently in one place

b)

people went from one place to another

c)

people like agriculture

d)

people built huts

11.

Name the oldest period

a)

Prehistory

b)

Neolithic

c)

Paleolithic

d)

Metal Ages

12.

Which of these words are about Paleolithic?

a)

fire

b)

agriculture

c)

huts and caves

d)

tools

13.

Tools are made of...

a)

animal skins

b)

stones

c)

woods

d)

animal bones

14.

Find three words about Neolithic...

a)

agriculture

b)

nomadic

c)

sedentary

d)

artisans and farmers

15.

Sedentary means...

a)

people stopped moving around

b)

People went from one place to another

c)

People live permanently in one place

d)

People live in caves and huts

16.

Who discovered agriculture?

a)

Paleolithic People

b)

Metal age people

c)

Neolithic people

d)

prehistory people

17.

What's the meaning of TRADE?

a)

Ceramic

b)

Exchange

c)

Artisans

d)

Crops

18.

Bronze and Iron Age people.......... metal to make different shapes

a)

metalworker

b)

evaporated

c)

freezed

d)

melted

19.

After this was invented, people could transport things more easily

a)

Fire

b)

Agriculture

c)

Wall

d)

Wheel

20.

People built this to defend their villages

a)

Wall

b)

Wheel

c)

Window

d)

Wardrobe

21.

__________________ started when people invented writing.

a)

Prehistory

b)

Ancient History

c)

The Middle Ages.

22.

Who is an anthropologist?

a)

A person who studies the origin, history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.

b)

A person that studies the origin, history, structure, and composition of the Earth.

c)

A person who studies living things.

d)

A person who designs buildings and supervises their construction.

23.

What is a hunter-gatherer?

a)

A person who collect different things.

b)

A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing and harvesting wild food.

c)

A person who farms.

d)

A member of the community who helps other.

24.

What is prehistory?

a)

Actual time and events.

b)

The time when written records were kept.

c)

The time before written records were kept.

d)

The time you were born.

25.

What is a fossil?

a)

Decomposed organism.

b)

The remains of ancient cities.

c)

The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in a rock.

d)

The remains of organisms after a storm, fire or anatural disaster

26.

Prehistory corresponds to these ages.

a)

Paleolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages.

b)

Paleolithic, Neolithic and Modern age.

c)

Modern age, Ancient age and Prehistory

d)

Stone age, Metal ages and Iron age.

27.

Who lived in the Iberian Peninsula during Ancient Times? (choose TWO answers)

a)

Sumerians

b)

Iberians

c)

Babylonians

d)

Celts

e)

Egyptians

28.

Choose: The ________ lived in castros.

a)

Iberians

b)

Celts

c)

Both

29.

The ____ lived in the east and the south of the peninsula.

a)

Celts

b)

Iberians

c)

Both

30.

The ____ lived in the north and centre of the peninsula.

a)

Celts

b)

Iberians

c)

Both

31.

The _________ traded with the Greeks, Phoeninicians and Carthaginians.

a)

Celts

b)

Iberians

c)

Both

32.

Thy Knew how to do metal work.

a)

Celts,

b)

Iberians

c)

Both

33.

They sculpted the Toros de Guisando.

a)

Celts

b)

Iberians

34.

They were good farmers.

a)

Celts

b)

Iberians

c)

Both

35.

They lived in walled towns in elevated areas.

a)

Celts

b)

Iberians

c)

Both

36.

This picture you can see belongs to________

a)

Paleolithic

b)

Neolothic

c)

Metal ages.

37.

This picture you can see belongs to

a)

Paleolithic

b)

Neolithic

c)

Metal ages.

38.

In order to express ideas, early humans

a)

wrote letters

b)

painted in caves

c)

played music

d)

posted on Facebook

39.

What led to the first permanent settlements?

a)

agriculture

b)

megaliths

c)

migration

d)

language

40.

Which of the following were Stone Age tools NOT made of?

a)

stone

b)

bone

c)

bronze

d)

wood

41.

The following describes which Stone Age era?

- Man-made fire

- Domestication of plants and animals

- Agriculture

a)

Mesolithic

b)

Neolithic

c)

Paleolithic

d)

Bronze Age

42.

Historians believe that people first lived in

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

d)

North America

43.

How did domestication affect community life?

a)

People did not need tools.

b)

People searched for different foods.

c)

People did not need to hunt for food anymore.

d)

People had less food.

44.
What change marked the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution? 
a)
beginning of hunting and gathering
b)
man learned to write
c)
man began farming
d)
man built towns and cities
45.

Humans had to hunt for food.

a)

Paleolithic

b)

Neolithic