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Prehistory to Civilization Assessment Lesson

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who are people who move from place to place following game animals and ripening fruits?

a)

slaves

b)

scribes

c)

nomads

d)

neolithic humans

2.

What is the taming of animals, in order to meet human wants or needs?

a)

Nomads

b)

Social Exchange Theory

c)

The Death Star

d)

Domesticate

3.

What is the worship of many gods?

a)

Polytheism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Animism

d)

Monotheism

4.

What is the term for the New Stone Age?

a)

Modern Age

b)

Paleolithic Age

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

Domesticate

5.

What are drawings that represent words called?

a)

letters

b)

pictograms

c)

scribes

d)

domesticate

6.

What is the earliest period of human history called?

a)

Paleolithic Age

b)

prehistory

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

post-history

7.

What is the period of time before people invented writing systems?

a)

prehistory

b)

Paleolithic Age

c)

Neolithic Age

d)

posthistory

8.

Historians are like archaeologists in that they both study how people lived by examining

a)

longitude and latitude.

b)

artifacts.

c)

plants and animals.

d)

regions.

9.

Which of the following statements does NOT describe life in the Old Stone Age?

a)

Paleolithic people go from place to place following animals.

b)

Paleolithic people made their own crops & stayed in place.

c)

Paleolithic people lived in hunting & food-gathering groups.

d)

They were dependent on their environment for survival.

10.

Which of the following is a Neolithic advancement?

a)

first use of fire

b)

creation of calendars

c)

written language

d)

ritual burials

11.

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Period?

a)

farming

b)

toolmaking

c)

written language

d)

organized government

12.

Where did the first cities emerge?

a)

along trade routes

b)

along the Mediterranean coast

c)

in river valleys

d)

in the Americas

13.

Which of the following was another characteristic of the Paleolithic Age?

a)

Farming Villages

b)

Hunting and Gathering

c)

Organized Government

d)

Domestication of Animals

14.

Which of the following caused ancient civilizations to change?

a)

lack of traditions

b)

poor leaders

c)

contact with other people through trade, warfare & migration

d)

nomadic herders

15.

What part of the world did the first hominids come from?

a)

Europe

b)

Asia and Australia

c)

North and South America

d)

Africa

16.

The agricultural lifestyle led to the development of all of the following EXCEPT

a)

the calendar.

b)

cooperative hunting groups.

c)

rules of inheritance.

d)

land boundaries.

17.

Which was a key feature of early civilizations?

a)

cities

b)

steelmaking

c)

social equality

d)

a system of exchanging goods for money

18.

Process by which people become more proficient at earning a living by performing a single task?

a)

the diffusion of culture

b)

the specialization of labor

c)

surplus agricultural production

d)

domestication

19.

Complex societies with advanced knowledge of farming, trade, government, and art are

a)

cultures

b)

civilizations

c)

cooperatives

d)

agricultural villages

20.

Bronze became a favored material for tools and weapons because...

a)

it could be given a sharp cutting edge and was easy to mold.

b)

flint supplies diminished during the Bronze Age

c)

artisans found it difficult to shape liquid metals

d)

was much less expensive than copper or tin

21.

Why were people nomadic

a)

Survival needs

b)

Religious needs

c)

Trade

d)

They felt like it

22.

What does nomadic mean?

a)

They travel from place to place

b)

Early humans

c)

Religious people

d)

Only travel for religion

23.

Groups with no permanent home who travel around.

a)

Societies

b)

Nomads

c)

Cultures

d)

Sumerians