Chapter 1

Question 0

agriculture began how many years ago

Answer 0

12,000

Question 1

people who forage for food instead of producing it

Answer 1

Paleolithic or hunter gatherer people

Question 2

where did humans first develop

Answer 2

Africa

Question 3

about 100,000 years ago human beings began

Answer 3

to migrate from Africa

Question 4

Paleolithic carved female figures often with exaggerated breasts and hips are known as

Answer 4

Venus figurines

Question 5

in the Australian aboriginal concept everything in the present day is a vibration or echo of ancient happenings

Answer 5

dreamtime

Question 6

members of what Paleolithic society in North America spread widely across the continent perhaps in pursuit of large mammals that were there major source of food

Answer 6

Clovis culture

Question 7

speakers of what languages begin migrating to the Pacific islands about 3500 years ago

Answer 7

austronesian

Question 8

Paleolithic society in general consisted of bands of how many people

Answer 8

25 to 50

Question 9

occurring between 16,000 and 10,000 years ago what was the most significant factor in changing Paleolithic life

Answer 9

The end of the last Ice Age

Question 10

Paleolithic societies in Japan known as what settled in permanent seaside villages where they invented some of the earliest poetry

Answer 10

Jomon

Question 11

The San people lived on the fringe of the what

Answer 11

Kalahari Desert

Question 12

most of the khoisan speaking Paleolithic cultures of south Africa were absorbed and or displaced by agricultural people who spoke what

Answer 12

Bantu

Question 13

send society included a denigration of good hunting called what intended to keep successful hunters from boasting about skill

Answer 13

insulting the meat

Question 14

The San believed that most serious threat to human welfare was the gauwasi which means

Answer 14

ghosts of dead ancestors

Question 15

the chumashpeople established a sedentary Paleolithic society in what is now

Answer 15

Southern California

Question 16

what’s society was transformed by the creation of an ocean going canoe known as the tomol

Answer 16

Chumash

Question 17

The first hominid species to use fire in a controlled fashion was

Answer 17

Homo erectus

Question 18

The early human settlers in what are now south France and north Spain left a record of the world in the form of hundreds of

Answer 18

cave paintings

Question 19

The dying out of many large animal species came out about the end of the Ice Age either because of climate change or humans hunted them to extinction this was known as

Answer 19

megafaunal extinction

Question 20

which did not develop in the Paleolithic era

Answer 20

the first writing systems

Question 21

modern scholars use all except which of the following to understand Paleolithic people

Answer 21

The study of written ritual text

Question 22

The last Ice Age may have helped early gather Hunter societies in what way

Answer 22

The lower sea levels associated with the Ice Age created bridges allowing human beings to travel many regions of the earth

Question 23

which is generally true of Paleolithic people

Answer 23

developed elaborate and complex outlooks on the world

Question 24

in what way were the Austronesian migrations to the Pacific islands not distinct from earlier human migration

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they had a significant impact on their new environments unlike earlier migrants

Question 25

all except which was a common feature of hunting and gathering societies

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they had clear defined social hierarchies

Question 26

in which of the following ways the Paleolithic people purposely alter the natural environment

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they deliberately set fire to encourage the growth of particular plants

Question 27

which of the following was not a result of the end of the last Ice Age

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humans learned to sew instead of wearing simple animal skin as clothes

Question 28

in what way did the settling down of human populations change the way the societies were organized

Answer 28

people became increasingly unequal and societies became more complex

Question 29

in which environment is it most likely that a Paleolithic society would have been able to settle down permanently in villages while continuing to live from hunting and gathering

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near is a sea which would provide a permanent food supply

Question 30

which of the following is a significant difference between the San and Chumash people

Answer 30

unlike the sand, the Chumash made use of the ocean as an important source of food

Question 31

all except which of the following made the jomon society of Japan different from most Paleolithic societies

Answer 31

The Jomon people were the first to invent the bow and arrow

Question 32

which factors made it more likely that hunting and gathering people would turn to agriculture

Answer 32

population pressure placing a heavy demand on environment and living in settled communities which made heavier demands on the environment than gathering and hunting could supply
A and C only

Question 33

which of the following statements about the San people is false

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The lifestyle of the modern san markedly different from that of earlier khoisan speaking Paleolithic people’s of southern Africa

Question 34

The reason for the San unequal gift exchange is

Answer 34

to win respect friendship and obligation from others

Question 35

among on the San people the spiritual potency called n/um is important because

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it counteracts evil influences from the world of gods and ancestors

Question 36

which of the following was not a result of the Chumash invention of the planked canoe

Answer 36

because H use was controlled by women it led women to gain a superior position in society

Question 37

which of the following Paleolithic societies lived in substantial permanent houses developed a market economy and had an elite craft Guild

Answer 37

Chumash

Question 38

which of the following is not true of political leadership among the Chumash

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political leaders drew their power and prestige exclusively from their role as war leaders

Question 39

in recent decades some people have celebrated Paleolithic life on the grounds that

Answer 39

Paleolithic people enjoyed much greater gender a quality had an ideal diet and valued sharing and equality rather than competition and materialism