1.2 Quiz

Question 1

Agrarian

Answer 1

of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.

Question 2

Agriculture

Answer 2

the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

Question 3

Agricultural revolution

Answer 3

The Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century paved the way for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. New farming techniques and improved livestock breeding led to amplified food production

Question 4

Artisan

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a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

Question 5

Bronze age

Answer 5

The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization

Question 6

Catal Huyuk

Answer 6

Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Question 7

Civilization

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the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.

Question 8

Cuneiform

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denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.

Question 9

Domestication

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Domestication is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses.

Question 10

Fire stick farming

Answer 10

Fire-stick farming, a term coined by Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones in 1969, describes the practice of Indigenous Australians who regularly used fire to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.

Question 11

Foragers

Answer 11

People who wander in search of provisions

Question 12

Hunter gatherer

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Infanticide

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the crime of killing a child within a year of birth.

Question 14

Metallurgy

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the branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification.

Question 15

Neolithic revolution

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The Neolithic Revolution was a fundamental change in the way people lived. The shift from hunting & gathering to agriculture led to permanent settlements, the establishment of social classes, and the eventual rise of civilizations

Question 16

Nomad

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A nomad (Greek: νομάς, nomas, plural νομάδες, nomades; meaning one roaming about for pasture, pastoral tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another.

Question 17

Polytheistic

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the belief in or worship of more than one god.

Question 18

Quipu

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The quipu is a series of colored, knotted strings. The type of knot indicated a number, and the knot’s placement signified units of 1, 10, 100, or more. All the cords hung from a main string, and their positions and colors likely signaled what was being counted—gold, corn, or other goods.

Question 19

Sedentary

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A way of lazy life

Question 20

Scribe

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scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand in hieratics, cuneiform or other scripts and may help keep track of records for priests and government.

Question 21

Specialization

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Specialization is a method of production where a business, area or economy focuses on the production of a limited scope of products or services to gain greater degrees of productive efficiency within an overall system.

Question 22

Surplus

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an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.

Question 23

Technology

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Technology (“science of craft”, from Greek τέχνη, techne, “art, skill, cunning of hand”; and -λογία, -logia) is the collection of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.

Question 24

Venus figurines

Answer 24

Venus figurines’ - is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric statues of women sharing common attributes from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found from Western Europe to Siberia. These items were carved from soft stone, bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired.

Question 25

Ziggurat

Answer 25

ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).