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Total questions: 87

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

tripartite divisions of

historic time periods

a)

3 AGE SYSTEM

b)

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

c)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

d)

INFORMATION AGE

2.

marked the

emergence of modern science

a)

3 AGE SYSTEM:

b)

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:

c)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:

d)

INFORMATION AGE:

3.

transition to

new manufacturing processes in Europe and

the United States

a)

3 AGE SYSTEM:

b)

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:

c)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:

d)

INFORMATION AGE:

4.

Occurred from 1760 to sometime between

1820 and 1840.

a)

3 AGE SYSTEM:

b)

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:

c)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:

d)

INFORMATION AGE:

5.

Computer Age,

Digital Age, or New Media Age began in the

late 20th century, rapid epochal shift -

a)

3 AGE SYSTEM:

b)

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:

c)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:

d)

INFORMATION AGE:

6.

What are the 3 age system

a)

Stone Age

b)

Bronze Age

c)

Iron Age

d)

Steel Age

e)

Metal Age

7.

Originated the concept of dividing

prehistoric ages into systems based on metals.

a)

Lucretius

b)

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

c)

Lady Hao

d)

King Wuding

8.

Created the archaeological system of the three main

ages

a)

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

b)

Lucretius:

c)

Lady Hao

d)

King wudling

9.

How many years the stone age lasted

a)

3.4 million years

b)

34 million years

c)

34 thousand years

10.

When did the stone age started and ended

a)

30, 000 bce to 3,000 bce

b)

30,000 bce to 10,000 bce

c)

10,000 bce to 8,000 bce

11.

distinct period of the stone age

a)

Paleolithic Period

b)

Mesolithic Period

c)

Neolithic Period

12.

(30,000

BCE–10,000 BCE)

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

13.

(10,000

BCE–8,000 BCE)

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

14.

(8,000

BCE–3,000 BCE)

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

15.

transformation of nomad human settlements into

agrarian societies

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

16.

early pottery, as well as sculpture, architecture, and

the construction

of megaliths.

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

17.

portable art such as figurines, statuettes, and beads

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

18.

figurines were carved from soft stone

The latter are among the

oldest ceramics known.

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

19.

basic stone tools and stone art in the archaeological

record.

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

20.

create durable products of self-expression that serve

no function for survival.

a)

Old Stone Age

b)

Middle Stone Age

c)

New Stone Age

21.

3,000 BC - 1200 BC

a)

Stone Age

b)

Bronze Age

c)

Iron Age

22.

a class of people specializing in the

production of art, as well as in early

writing systems.

a)

school

b)

artisans

c)

painters

23.

3700 BC - The bronze age

a)

Knowledge of how to mix the copper

and tin

b)

farm tools and

weapons were being made

c)

Expensive to make; needs craftsman

d)

Early trading center

24.

farm tools and

weapons were being made

a)

3700 BC

b)

3769 BC

c)

3500 BC

d)

2500 BC

25.

3500 BC - Bronze in Bohemia

a)

Knowledge of how to mix the copper

and tin

b)

farm tools and

weapons were being made

c)

Expensive to make; needs craftsman

d)

Early trading center

26.

Indus Valles - Early Trading Center

a)

3700 BC

b)

3769 BC

c)

3500 BC

d)

2500 BC

27.

Longshan people of China

- make tools and weapons

a)

2400 BC

b)

2300 BC

c)

1700 BC

d)

1650 BC

28.

1650 - Mycenean Civilization

a)

replace all stone

tools

b)

use bronze regularly,

set up a bronze working community.

c)

used bronze until

1100 BC.

d)

Have bronze until the invasion of

Hyksos

29.

Yellow River Valley - Shang Dynasty

- use bronze regularly

a)

2400 BC

b)

2300 BC

c)

1700 BC

d)

1650 BC

30.

Buried with Bronze items

a)

Lady Hao

b)

King Wudling

c)

Lucretius

d)

Christian Thomsen

31.

Southern community of Phylos

a)

2400 laborers

b)

400 laborers

c)

500 laborers

d)

700 laborers

32.

Have bronze until the invasion of

Hyksos

a)

1640 BC

b)

1500 BC

c)

1250 BC

d)

1122 BC

33.

1500 BC Middle bronze age

a)

Undeveloped Europe did not use

bronze until abt. 1000 BC.

b)

Have bronze until the invasion of

Hyksos

c)

Bronze swords and helmet are made

d)

Chou Dynasty continued to use

Bronze working techniques

e)

Chinese: introduced Bronze working

to koreans.

34.

Bronze swords and helmet are made

a)

1640 BC

b)

1500 BC

c)

1250 BC

d)

1122 BC

35.

1122 BC Yellow river, china

a)

Undeveloped Europe did not use

bronze until abt. 1000 BC.

b)

Have bronze until the invasion of

Hyksos

c)

Bronze swords and helmet are made

d)

Chou Dynasty continued to use

Bronze working techniques

e)

Chinese: introduced Bronze working

to koreans.

36.

introduced Bronze working

a)

1122 BC

b)

1000 BC

c)

300 BC

d)

1250 BC

37.

bronze and iron tools

a)

1122 BC

b)

1000 BC

c)

300 BC

d)

1250 BC

38.

civilizations with writing had arisen from Ancient

Egypt to Ancient China.

a)

Stone Age

b)

Bronze Age

c)

Iron Age

39.

history of microscopy

5th to 13th century

plano-convex lenses

a)

Middle Ages

b)

Bronze Age

c)

Renaissance

40.

Light Microscope

a)

1590

b)

1632

c)

1723

d)

1593

41.

polished beryl

a)

reading

stones to magnify manuscripts

b)

forerunner of the compound microscope

c)

focusing device

42.

Created the Light Microscope

a)

Zaccharias Janssen

b)

Hans

c)

Christian Thomsen

43.

focusing device.

a)

1590,

b)

1609

c)

1632

d)

1723

44.

1609

a)

Galileo

b)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Zaccharias Janssen

d)

Hans

45.

1590

a)

Galileo

b)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Zaccharias Janssen

d)

Hans

46.

1632-1723

a)

Galileo

b)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Zaccharias Janssen

d)

Hans

47.

grinding and polishing tiny

lenses of great curvature which gave magnifications

up to 270

a)

Galileo,

b)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Zaccharias Janssen

d)

Hans,

48.

father of modern physics and

astronomy,

a)

Galileo

b)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Zaccharias Janssen

d)

Hans

49.

The father

of microscopy

a)

Galileo

b)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Zaccharias Janssen

d)

Hans

50.

“rebirth”

rediscovery of

classical philosophy, literature, and art.

credited with bridging the gap between the

Middle Ages and modern-day civilization.

a)

From Darkness to Light

b)

Renaissance

c)

China Civilization

d)

Zhou dynasty

51.

between the fall of ancient

Rome in 476 A.D.

beginning of the 14th

century

a)

From Darkness to Light

b)

Renaissance

c)

China Civilization

d)

Zhou dynasty

52.

time of war, ignorance, famine and

pandemics such

as the Black Death.

a)

Dark Ages

b)

Light Ages

c)

Iron Age

53.

One of the world's oldest civilizations,

- One of the cradles of civilization.

a)

China Civilization

b)

Mycenean Civilization

c)

Indus Valley

54.

supplanted the Shang and introduced the

concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify

their rule.

a)

Zhou dynasty

b)

Shang Dynasty

c)

Longshan Dynasty

55.

a primate that lived 45 million

years ago

known as the "first anthropoid",

a)

fossils of Shu Ape

b)

Fossils of Lady Hao

c)

Fossils of King Wudling

56.

fossils of Shu Ape is discovered in china in the year

a)

1046

b)

1973

c)

1994

d)

1992

57.

Great inventions of ancient china

a)

Papermaking

b)

printing

c)

gunpowder

d)

compass

58.

Farming , Silk production, Bronze production: More

sophisticated

a)

Agriculture

and

Economy

b)

Science

c)

Technology

d)

Education

59.

Physics , Astronomy, Mathematics, Medical Biology

a)

Agriculture

and

Economy

b)

Science

c)

Technology

d)

Education

60.

Weight is force

Motion: Caused by forces;

stops by obstruction

Convex & Concave Mirrors:

Virtual & inverted image

a)

Physics

b)

Astronomy

c)

Mathematics

d)

Medical Biology

61.

365 &1⁄4 days calendars in a

year

Models of universe -

presented

Stars, planets, comets,

meteors, & eclipse:

Catalogued & described

a)

Physics

b)

Astronomy

c)

Mathematics

d)

Medical Biology

62.

Numbers - decimals

● square roots - introduced

● sliding calipers - widely used

● Cubic, quadratic,

intermediate equations

a)

Physics

b)

Astronomy

c)

Mathematics

d)

Medical Biology

63.

Diseases

● Exercise, water therapy, wine

anesthesia

● Diagnoses: Observation,

auscultation, questioning,

pulse counting

● acupuncture

a)

Physics

b)

Astronomy

c)

Mathematics

d)

Medical Biology

64.

Paper, Seismograph, Animal Harness, Water Power

a)

Agriculture

and

Economy

b)

Science

c)

Technology

d)

Education

65.

Feudal system

Depended on local agricultural and

handicraft production

a)

Economy

b)

Education

c)

Technology

d)

Medicine

66.

Cathedral schools - became

universities.

a)

Economy

b)

Education

c)

Technology

d)

Medicine

67.

Superstition & dogmatism

Urine inspection

a)

Economy

b)

Education

c)

Technology

d)

Medicine

68.

Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya

peoples,

a)

The Maya civilization

b)

The Aztec Empire

c)

China Civilization

d)

Olmec Civilization

69.

- earliest known major civilization in Mesoamerica

a)

The Maya civilization

b)

Olmec Civilization

c)

China Civilization

d)

Aztec Civilization

70.

most sophisticated and

highly developed writing system

a)

logo syllabic script

b)

Veracruz

c)

hieroglyphic

writing.

71.

developed the science of

astronomy, calendar systems, and hieroglyphic

writing.

pyramids, temples, palaces, and

observatories.

skilled weavers and potter

a)

The Maya civilization

b)

Olmec Civilization

c)

China Civilization

d)

Olmec Civilization

72.

covered most of northern

Mesoamerica

dominate their

neighboring states and permit rulers such as

Motecuhzoma II

a)

The Maya civilization

b)

Olmec Civilization

c)

China Civilization

d)

Aztec Civilization

73.

covered most of northern

Mesoamerica

dominate their

neighboring states and permit rulers such as

Motecuhzoma II

a)

The Maya civilization

b)

Olmec Civilization

c)

China Civilization

d)

Aztec Civilization

74.

flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533

CE

largest empire

known as the

[Kingdom of Australia] before 1438

a)

Inca civilization

b)

Olmec Civilization

c)

China Civilization

d)

Aztec Civilization

75.

emergence of modern science

taking place over

an extended period

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Scientific Revolution

c)

Information Age

76.

transition to

new manufacturing processes

- the development of machine

tools and the rise of the mechanized factory system.

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Scientific Revolution

c)

Information Age

77.

recovery of the knowledge of the ancients;

a)

Scientific Renaissance

b)

grand synthesis

c)

Principia

d)

Age of Reflection

78.

social change;- slavery was abolished,

- First and Second Industrial Revolutions

massive urbanization

a)

Modern Times

b)

Middle Ages

c)

New Age

79.

South

Asia and almost all of Africa under colonial rule.

a)

Islamic gunpowder empires:

b)

European imperialism

c)

massive urbanization

80.

- Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age

- late 20th century,

- a rapid epochal shift

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Scientific Revolution

c)

Information Age

81.

February 3, 1468

introduced printing to Europe with

the printing press.

mechanical movable type

printing

a)

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg

b)

The pre-Gutenberg world

c)

The Gutenberg revolution

d)

The post-Gutenberg world

82.

not possible to distribute precise replicable

information

- Information could be captured, hand- produced

books, scrolls or tablets

> restricted to a small elite group.

Institutional development was limited

a)

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg

b)

The pre-Gutenberg world

c)

The Gutenberg revolution

d)

The post-Gutenberg world

83.

purely word-of-mouth

channels

a)

The form of information:

b)

Transmission of knowledge:

c)

Gutenberg principle:

84.

the story, this being the

form best adapted to surviving the process of

‘Chinese whispers’ that mass communication

involves.

a)

The form of information:

b)

Transmission of knowledge:

c)

Gutenberg principle:

85.

the catalyst for the Renaissance,- Gutenberg principle: the fact that mass distribution

of information is possible, but expensive.

- rise of institutionalized and mediated channels

> create the efficiencies and scale

a)

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg

b)

The pre-Gutenberg world

c)

The Gutenberg revolution

d)

The post-Gutenberg world

86.

- The emergence of the internet and the World Wide

Web 1990s:

greater access to information

was not matched by a greater ability to publish it.

- Speed of access also limited the ability of the

internet

a)

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg

b)

The pre-Gutenberg world

c)

The Gutenberg revolution

d)

The post-Gutenberg world

87.

was an English polymath.

originated the concept of a digital

programmable computer.

"father of the

computer”,

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg

c)

Antón van Leeuwenhoek

d)

Galileo,