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WorksheetsCH 3 Early Humans and Agricultural Revolution
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 17mins
What aspect of the lives of hunter-gatherers does the image below illustrate?
Hunter-gatherers relied on technology to make tools.
Hunter-gatherers found footprints useful during migration.
Hunter-gatherers followed certain paths for trade.
Hunter-gatherers depended on hunting for food.
Historians think that women were major contributors to specific areas of Neolithic life. What were the two main areas?
serving as family and community leaders
overseeing food supplies and weaving textiles
making pottery and religious shrines
painting and working in the fields
What was the relationship between changes to the physical landscape and the development of agriculture after the last Ice Age?
Nomads continued migrating to other regions following herds of animals.
Climate changes led people to move further north and south from the Equator.
The cold temperatures forced people to change their way of life and adapt to the environment.
Mild climate and fertile land allowed farming to replace hunting and gathering as the main food source.
How did the creation of basic tools eventually lead to advances in agriculture?
Civilizations could be conquered with weapons.
The types of tools developed determined where people settled.
Smaller and more refined tools could be made using basic tools.
Hunting became easier through the use of tools.
Look at the chart.
What was the cause of the problems early settlements faced in the Neolithic Age?
Early Settlement Problems
depletion of resources
loss of forestation
desert-like conditions
settlements abandoned
climate change
population growth
technological innovations
migration patterns
“It was a hominid skull, apparently in situ, and there was a lot of it there. I rushed back to camp to tell Louis, who leaped out of bed, and then we were soon back at the site, looking at my find together. Louis was sad that the skull was not of an early Homo, but he concealed his feelings well and expressed only mild disappointment.”
—Mary Leakey
What is the significance of what is described in the primary source?
It told about the studies done during the twentieth century by several archaeologists in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
It described findings about early human history made by people who study humans.
It established that a prehistoric species of hominids lived in Africa millions of years ago.
It established the fact that archaeologists must find evidence to tell when things happened in the past.
How were early farmers different from hunter-gatherers?
They often changed their physical location.
They usually lived in small bands of 20–30 people.
They domesticated animals for human use.
They ate all the grains that they collected.
What does the primary source tell you about the methods archeologists use to determine facts about the past?
“But one scrap of bone that caught and held my eye was not lying loose on the surface but projecting from beneath. It seemed to be part of a skull, including a mastoid process (the bony projections below the ear). It had a hominid look, but the bones seemed enormously thick—too thick, surely. I carefully brushed away a little of the deposit, and then I could see parts of two large teeth in place in the upper jaw. They were hominid.” —Mary Leakey
Archeologists must theorize about what is possible.
Archeologists describe things very clearly.
Archeologists base their conclusions on physical evidence.
Archeologists are often disappointed by what they find.
What evidence supports the idea that an early culture was becoming a civilization?
copper weapons
stone tools
spoken language
small population
What benefit did early humans gain by settling in agricultural communities?
benefited from less sickness and enjoyed more free time
developed religious beliefs which led to permanent houses of worship
able to expand territory to find new food sources for hunting and gathering
became more adaptable and had more natural resources available
A mixture of copper and tin is called?
brass
amber
platinum
bronze
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the Earth were the
Ice ages
Bronze Ages
Stone Age
Golden Age
Why was the discovery of bronze an important breakthrough at the end of the Neolithic Age?
Bronze was stronger than copper.
Bronze was more affordable than copper.
Bronze was more abundant than copper.
Bronze was more attractive than copper.
Because the conditions for farming were suitable, the first civilizations arose
in the mountains
near the sea
in river valleys
in the desert
Apply the concepts you have learned, and determine the most important and long-lasting effect the Agricultural Revolution had on people’s lives.
People began eating wild grains.
The population grew at a faster rate, and people settled into communities.
People completely stopped hunting and gathering.
New types of stone tools were made.
As food became more abundant, fewer people were needed in the fields. As a result, some people
went back to hunting and gathering
started domesticating animals
became artisans, or skilled workers
moved out of the villages
What do historians call the general early period of human history?
Ancient Bronze
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Stone Age
From the following choices, determine the best example of how an advance in the use of technology made life less difficult with Paleoloithic people.
They hunted and gathered
They discovered how to use fire
They lived near water sources
They used caves as shelters
Recall the advancement during the Paleolithic Age that made gathering food easier.
tools
language
art
religion
What advancement during the Paleolithic Age made communication between people easier?
the use of physical gestures
the development of written languages
the development of spoken language
the discovery that crushed rock and animal fat makes paint
“Now, compared to the outside, the streets [of Nippur, circa 2100B.C.,] are narrow, cool and dark. But it’s a mud-brick town. There’s some dust around. After passing through a residential area in the lower town, you’d climb the mound, maybe stop and buy some bread to munch on, a flat bread like pita. There’s a bakery there. Five or six ovens are turning out maybe 1,500 loaves a day...You might move on to the outer walls of the ziggurat...and it looks magnificent, standing above everything in the city, with its temple on top.”
----Dr. McGuire Gibson, archaeologist, Splendors of the Past: Lost Cities of the Ancient World
Which of the following statements best summarizes the excerpt?
Nippur was a prosperous and busy town
Nippur was run-down and poor
The people of Nippur ate pita bread
The ziggurat is the center point of the town
“Now, compared to the outside, the streets [of Nippur, circa 2100B.C.,] are narrow, cool and dark. But it’s a mud-brick town. There’s some dust around. After passing through a residential area in the lower town, you’d climb the mound, maybe stop and buy some bread to munch on, a flat bread like pita. There’s a bakery there. Five or six ovens are turning out maybe 1,500 loaves a day...You might move on to the outer walls of the ziggurat...and it looks magnificent, standing above everything in the city, with its temple on top.”
----Dr. McGuire Gibson, archaeologist, Splendors of the Past: Lost Cities of the Ancient World
According to the excerpt, Dr. Gibson as an archaeologist is describing
what he actually sees in Nippur
what he imagines Nippur was like in the past
what he recommends doing while in Nippur
what he actually hears in Nippur
“Now, compared to the outside, the streets [of Nippur, circa 2100B.C.,] are narrow, cool and dark. But it’s a mud-brick town. There’s some dust around. After passing through a residential area in the lower town, you’d climb the mound, maybe stop and buy some bread to munch on, a flat bread like pita. There’s a bakery there. Five or six ovens are turning out maybe 1,500 loaves a day...You might move on to the outer walls of the ziggurat...and it looks magnificent, standing above everything in the city, with its temple on top.”
----Dr. McGuire Gibson, archaeologist, Splendors of the Past: Lost Cities of the Ancient World
According to the excerpt, if you lived in Nippur, where would your home be located?
at the ziggurat
in the lower town
by the bakery
outside the walls
