Big Geography & Peopling of the Earth

Question 1

six periods of time

Answer 1

• first is technological and environmental transformation

Question 2

technological and environmental transformation

Answer 2

• the beginning to 600 BCE
• 13.75 billion years ago (Big Bang)
• 4.6 billion years ago (Earth formed)
• 65 million years ago (Age of the dinosaurs)
• 3.2 million years ago (Lucy discovered)

Question 3

radiation theory

Answer 3

• all humans started in Africa, East Ethiopia, and then migrated from there to Asia and Europe then the Americas

Question 4

neolithic revolution

Answer 4

• group of peoples started to have to move less, didn’t need to move for food because weather warmed up
• farming
• hunter-gatherers (healthier, better families, better teeth, stronger bones)
• farming led to development of civilizations
• farmers (disease, gender inequalities, chronic warfare)
• 8000 BCE

Question 5

themes

Answer 5

• humans an d environment
• development of cultures
• state building
• expansions
• conflict creation
• economics system
• changing social structures

Question 6

domestication of plants

Answer 6

• wheat, barely was grown
• believed that farming began in East Asia
• food surplus
• people became less nomadic

Question 7

middle East

Answer 7

• domestication of larger animals

Question 8

agricultural settlements

Answer 8

• settlements that started to grow around agriculture

- world becoming civilized

Question 9

food surplus

Answer 9

• led to language, work, government, religion

- s social stratification (rulers, priests, artisans, merchants, peasants/slaves)

Question 10

architecture

Answer 10

• ziggurats, ect.

Question 11

technology

Answer 11

• the wheel
• building of massive temples
• pottery
• the plow
• metals

Question 12

Bronze Age

Answer 12

• around 3000 BCE

Question 13

Iron age

Answer 13

• around 1300 BCE

Question 14

which of the following was NOT a commonly domesticated animal during the neolithic age?

Answer 14

• chicken

Question 15

one of the effects of the ice age and subsequent warming of the planet was _______

Answer 15

• an increase in plants and animals

Question 16

which is the correct ORDER of events related to the end of the ice age?

Answer 16

• warming of the planet, increased farming, food surplus, population increase

Question 17

the main function of governments in new farming settlements during the Neolithic age was to

Answer 17

• protect property and distribute goods

Question 18

the neolithic revolution was the start of _______

Answer 18

• farming

Question 19

people in the Americas fell behind during the Neolithic Revolution because ______

Answer 19

• they had not yet invented the wheel

Question 20

which of the following was NOT an effect of the end of the ice age?

Answer 20

• the proliferation of nomadic cultures

Question 21

which is NOT a way in which the environment was fundamentally altered as a result of the shift from hunting and gathering to farming that took place during the Neolithic Age?

Answer 21

• people began to use pottery