Chapter 1

Question 1

What where the first hominids?

Answer 1

Australopithecines

Question 2

What hominid it was called capable man in Latin?

Answer 2

Homo habilis

Question 3

What was the first to control fire?

Answer 3

Homo erectus

Question 4

What was the strongest hominid?

Answer 4

Homo Neanderthal

Question 5

Homo sapiens we’re on every continent except what?

Answer 5

Antarctica

Question 6

What are the four biological traits of a human?

Answer 6

Large brains, tool making, harnessing fire, and language.

Question 7

What made Homo sapiens dominant?

Answer 7

Language.

Question 8

What type of agriculturalist lived with the animals?

Answer 8

Transhumance agriculturalist

Question 9

What type of agriculturalist traveled with forces with their animals?

Answer 9

Nomadic agriculturalist

Question 10

Where was wheat barley horses pigs cows and sheep found?

Answer 10

Southwest Asia or middle east

Question 11

Where was rice found?

Answer 11

East Asia

Question 12

Where was maze found?

Answer 12

Mesoamerica

Question 13

Why was agriculture beginning to be bad for humans?

Answer 13

Diets lacked the variety of hunting and gathering, farmers began to appear shorter, they also suffered from disease because of close quarters and died earlier.

Question 14

How did agriculture turned the corner and change demographics?

Answer 14

More food began being planted unless land, farmers immune system’s strengthened, and the hunters and gatherers began dying quicker than the farmers.

Question 15

What animal is believed to be the first domesticated animal by humans?

Answer 15

The dog.

Question 16

A hominid species that appeared 3 million years ago and walked on two legs. Their brain capacity was a little less than one third of a modern humans or about the size of the brain capacity of today’s African apes. Although not humans, they carried the genetic and biological material out of which modern humans would later and emerge.

Answer 16

Australopithecines

Question 17

Narratives constructed by different cultures that draw on their belief systems and available evidence to explain the origins of the world and humanity.

Answer 17

Creation narratives

Question 18

Bringing a wild animal or plant under human control.

Answer 18

Domestication

Question 19

Process by which the different species of the world make changes in response to their environment that enabled them to survive an increase in numbers.

Answer 19

Evolution

Question 20

Humanlike beings who walked erect and proceeded modern humans.

Answer 20

Hominids

Question 21

Species that emerged about 1.5 million years ago and had a large brain and walk truly up right.

Answer 21

Homo erectus

Question 22

Scientific term for skillful man. To making ability truly made the four runners the very distant of modern humans.

Answer 22

Homo habilis

Question 23

The first humans that emerged in a small region of Africa about 200,000 years ago and migrated out of Africa about 100,000 years ago they had bigger brains and greater dexterity them previous hominid species.

Answer 23

Homo sapiens

Question 24

Lifestyle in which food is acquired through hunting animals, fishing, and foraging for wild berries, nuts, fruit, and grains, rather than planting crops, vines, or trees. As late as 1500, as much as 15% of the worlds population still lived by this method.

Answer 24

Hunting and gathering

Question 25

Hurting inbreeding of sheep and goats or other animals as a primary means of subsistence.

Answer 25

Pastoralism

Question 26

Application of human labor and tools to fix the plot of land for more than one growing cycle. It entailed the change over from a hunting and gathering live south to one based on agriculture, which requires staying in one place until the soil has been exhausted.

Answer 26

Settled agriculture

Question 27

What continent did humans first appear on?

Answer 27

Africa

Question 28

One of the big challenges for farmers living on this continent was the continued expansion of the Saharah desert.

Answer 28

Africa

Question 29

According to the Rig Veda, A collection of stories from this area, the earth was created from the body of 1000, thousand headache, thousand foot giant name Purusha.

Answer 29

South Asia, India

Question 30

Scientist debate the reason for the disappearance of this road for early humans, named after a gorge in Germany.

Answer 30

Neanderthal

Question 31

Unearthed in 1947, this early human ancestor was nicknamed Lucy by researchers in honor of the Beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

Answer 31

Australopithecus

Question 32

English scientist that outlined this theory of evolution in the book the origin of the species.

Answer 32

Charles Darwin

Question 33

According to Darwin, what process governs evolution?

Answer 33

Natural selection