Comparative Cultures Unit Tests - Ancient Civillizations

Question 1

What defines something as “Civil”?

Answer 1

• Following rules and guidelines
• Opposite of “Savage”

Question 2

What group was usually left out of the category of “civil”?

Answer 2

Indigenous peoples

Question 3

What are some aspects of civil societies?

Answer 3

• Mass cooperation
• Working together
• Rules/systems

Question 4

What have the majority of civilizations in history made their settlements near?

Answer 4

Water

Question 5

The agricultural revolution

Answer 5

Wide spread transition from hunting and gathering to farming and settlement that could support large communities

Question 6

How did stone age human give up their original ways of life?

Answer 6

Reluctantly and slowly

Question 7

By ___ tools and skill advanced enough to support families of communities of over ___

Answer 7

• 7,000
• 1,000

Question 8

By ___ BCE, agricultural people in ___ sufficient numbers of people

Answer 8

• 7,000
• 3,500

Question 9

When did the agrarian transformation happen?

Answer 9

Between 8,000-5,000 BCE

Question 10

What began in the agrarian revolution?

Answer 10

Cultivation of crops and the domestication of animals

Question 11

It is ___ how early civilizations produced food and necessities of life

Answer 11

• Uncertain

Question 12

What was the Ice Age caused by?

Answer 12

The retreat of glaciers

Question 13

What was one major result of the Ice Age?

Answer 13

• Caused many big game animals moved North to escape
• Caused areas like the Middle East (and other areas where animals were first domesticated) to dwindle greatly

Question 14

How do climate shifts affect the growth of wild grain?

Answer 14

It causes changes in distribution and growing patterns

Question 15

Increase in human population =___

Answer 15

• Sedentary farming

Question 16

The agrarian revolution was a result of what?

Answer 16

An increase in population numbers resulting in more grain harvest and the systemic cultivation of plants

Question 17

The first people to cultivate cereal grains long observed___ in the wild and ___ their seeds while gathering other plants for seeds and roots

Answer 17

• The growing in the wild
• Gathered

Question 18

Where did the majority of barley and wheat grow in prehistoric times?

Answer 18

The majority of wheat and barley grown in prehistoric times was grown in the Middle East

Question 19

What did hunting and gathering bands may have experimented with

Answer 19

Agriculture, which may have contributed to the discovery of agricultural principals through the observation of seed growth

Question 20

What happened as agricultural caught on?

Answer 20

Activities outside of agriculture began to slowly but surely diminish

Question 21

Possible early farmers ___ wild seeds, which ended up cutting ___ and reduced ___

Answer 21

• Broadcast
• Cutting labor
• Potential yield

Question 22

As the craze for agriculture continued, what steps did people take to ensure a good yield?

Answer 22

• Selecting good crops to replant

Question 23

The rise of agricultural practices began to diminish which groups?

Answer 23

Roving bands

Question 24

Some people practiced a mix of ___ and ___ so they could continue to hunt as well

Answer 24

• Moving
• Sedentary

Question 25

What was the neolithic revolution?

Answer 25

Agricultural revolution that made humans change their lifestyle from hunting and gathering to farming and anima domestication

Question 26

When were animals domesticated?

Answer 26

Before the discovery of agriculture

Question 27

Humans domesticated animals in ___ ways based off of their characteristics and strengths

Answer 27

- Different

Question 28

When were wolf pups domesticated?

Answer 28

12,000 BCE

Question 29

For what purpose were wolf pups domesticated for?

Answer 29

Herding an companionship

Question 30

Where were farm animals domesticated?

Answer 30

Farm animal were domesticated in the Middle East

Question 31

When were farm animals domesticated?

Answer 31

- 8,500-7,000 BCE - Sheep were domesticated in 6,500 BCE

Question 32

Besides farming, why were some other animals domesticated?

Answer 32

For religious purposes rather than a desire for food or clothing

Question 33

What is an example of animals being domesticated for religious purposes

Answer 33

Bulls being domesticated for religious fertility cults

Question 34

What can be made from animals hides?

Answer 34

- Clothes - Shelters - Containers - Crude boats

Question 35

What can be gathered from sheep cattle?

Answer 35

- Protein-rich meat and milk

Question 36

What can be made from animal horns and bones?

Answer 36

- Can be carved for tools or utensils

Question 37

When did the Bronze Age happen?

Answer 37

4,000-3,500

Question 38

What did Neolithic groups make little use of?

Answer 38

Animal power for farming, transportation, or travel

Question 39

What were reindeer tamed for?

Answer 39

Pulling sledges

Question 40

What were camels tamed for?

Answer 40

Transportation of goods

Question 41

What did Neolithic people use animals for?

Answer 41

- Manure to fertilize soil and increase yield of crops

Question 42

What did sedentary neolithic farmers coexist with?

Answer 42

Hunter gatherers, fishers, and migratory cultivators

Question 43

Even with the Neolithic revolution having happened, many ___ held out in different parts of the globe

Answer 43

Hunter gathers

Question 44

What happened as a result of horses and herd animals in the Americas?

Answer 44

Nomadic farming

Question 45

What did the domestication of animals lead to?

Answer 45

Pasterization

Question 46

What was the strongest competition to sedentary agriculture?

Answer 46

Pasteurization

Question 47

What did nomadic farming produce

Answer 47

Independent and strong people with the skills to survive challenges

Question 48

What did horse/camel-riding nomads do?

Answer 48

Destroy powerful kingdoms and empires and lay foundation for new ones

Question 49

Camel-riding nomads led to the rise of ___

Answer 49

Islamic civilization

Question 50

Cattle herders in Africa produced___

Answer 50

Formidable preindustrial military organizations

Question 51

What threatened nomadic culture?

Answer 51

The industrial revolution

Question 52

In the neolithic revolution, agriculture was not the main form of ___ for some societies, but those who adapted it ___ and ___ and passed techniques of production to others

Answer 52

- Support - Survived - Increased

Question 53

Cultivation of crops spread in ___ to ___ and ___

Answer 53

- The Middle East - Europe - India

Question 54

What did Egypt use to make clothing?

Answer 54

Crop fibers (this practice spread along the Nile)

Question 55

What was African Agriculture based on

Answer 55

Root crops

Question 56

What kind of agriculture did China develop?

Answer 56

Millet-based agriculture

Question 57

What kind of agricultural revolution began in Asia in 5,000 BCE?

Answer 57

Rice revolution

Question 58

What kind of crops are very common in the Americas and Central America

Answer 58

Corn, Maize, Sweet Potatoes