WorksheetsPrehistory to Civilization Assessment Lesson
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 23mins
Who are people who move from place to place following game animals and ripening fruits?
slaves
scribes
nomads
neolithic humans
What is the taming of animals, in order to meet human wants or needs?
Nomads
Social Exchange Theory
The Death Star
Domesticate
What is the worship of many gods?
Polytheism
Buddhism
Animism
Monotheism
What is the term for the New Stone Age?
Modern Age
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Domesticate
What are drawings that represent words called?
letters
pictograms
scribes
domesticate
What is the earliest period of human history called?
Paleolithic Age
prehistory
Neolithic Age
post-history
What is the period of time before people invented writing systems?
prehistory
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
posthistory
Historians are like archaeologists in that they both study how people lived by examining
longitude and latitude.
artifacts.
plants and animals.
regions.
Which of the following statements does NOT describe life in the Old Stone Age?
Paleolithic people go from place to place following animals.
Paleolithic people made their own crops & stayed in place.
Paleolithic people lived in hunting & food-gathering groups.
They were dependent on their environment for survival.
Which of the following is a Neolithic advancement?
first use of fire
creation of calendars
written language
ritual burials
Which of the following was a characteristic of the Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Period?
farming
toolmaking
written language
organized government
Where did the first cities emerge?
along trade routes
along the Mediterranean coast
in river valleys
in the Americas
Which of the following was another characteristic of the Paleolithic Age?
Farming Villages
Hunting and Gathering
Organized Government
Domestication of Animals
Which of the following caused ancient civilizations to change?
lack of traditions
poor leaders
contact with other people through trade, warfare & migration
nomadic herders
What part of the world did the first hominids come from?
Europe
Asia and Australia
North and South America
Africa
The agricultural lifestyle led to the development of all of the following EXCEPT
the calendar.
cooperative hunting groups.
rules of inheritance.
land boundaries.
Which was a key feature of early civilizations?
cities
steelmaking
social equality
a system of exchanging goods for money
Process by which people become more proficient at earning a living by performing a single task?
the diffusion of culture
the specialization of labor
surplus agricultural production
domestication
Complex societies with advanced knowledge of farming, trade, government, and art are
cultures
civilizations
cooperatives
agricultural villages
Bronze became a favored material for tools and weapons because...
it could be given a sharp cutting edge and was easy to mold.
flint supplies diminished during the Bronze Age
artisans found it difficult to shape liquid metals
was much less expensive than copper or tin
Why were people nomadic
Survival needs
Religious needs
Trade
They felt like it
What does nomadic mean?
They travel from place to place
Early humans
Religious people
Only travel for religion
Groups with no permanent home who travel around.
Societies
Nomads
Cultures
Sumerians
