chapter 1 test

Question 1

anthropologist

Answer 1

the study of humans past and present. they study all aspects of human life and culture

Question 2

prehistory

Answer 2

the period of time before writing was invented

Question 3

archaeology

Answer 3

the study of the past based on material that people have left behind

Question 4

animism

Answer 4

stone age belief in non living things

Question 5

catalhoyuk

Answer 5

one of first neolithic civilizations, three times bigger than Jericho

Question 6

why was the calendar an “important technology”

Answer 6

they used calendars to know when to plant and grow their crops

Question 7

what is the neolithic period and what is it known for ?

Answer 7

also known as “new stone age” final area of prehistory which began about 9000bc. agricultural revolution

Question 8

scribe

Answer 8

i’m ancient civilizations, people were trained to read, write, and keep records.

Question 9

what country were the leakeys excavating in a gorge and what did they find?

Answer 9

they were excavating in Tanzania and found a skull that dated back to over 2million years ago

Question 10

why is the migration of homo sapiens significant?

Answer 10

the first lived in africa going to different regions going eastward to Asia and across the Bering strait and populating the americas

Question 11

what is technology

Answer 11

the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs and wants

Question 12

what’s significant about the olduvai gorge and why we’re the leakeys excavating there?

Answer 12

first human skull found. they were there because they believed the first humans came from east africa

Question 13

why are homo erectus so significant? what tools did they master

Answer 13

the homo erectus were the first hominids to move out of africa. they were the first to make fire and the hand ax