Historical Antecedents of the World

Question 1

True or False
Technological advancements arose earlier than scientific discoveries

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The prehistoric period or when there was human life before records documented human activity roughly dates from ____________

Answer 2

2.5 million years ago to 1,200 B.C.

Question 3

The Human Condition before Common era is generally categorized in three archaeological periods_____________

Answer 3

• the stone age
• Bronze age
• Iron age

Question 4

It is the _________ of early humans to survive that allowed them to create several types of technologies

Answer 4

instinct

Question 5

True or False
The Human Condition Before Common Era have fire for cooking, tools for hunting, and even used stones for cave drawings that record their daily life and activities or illustrate what they observe in nature

Answer 5

True

Question 6

This era is marked by the invention and use of stone tools by our early human ancestors and the eventual transformation of the society from a culture of hunting and gathering to farming and food production

Answer 6

Stone age

Question 7

How long did Stone Age lasts?

Answer 7

2.5 ma- 3000BC

Question 8

What are the available resources to study the Stone Age?

Answer 8

Cave drawings, Unearthed Artifacts,

Question 9

What are the three separate periods in Stone Age?

Answer 9

• Paleolithic Period
• Mesolithic Period
• Neolithic Period

Question 10

Paleolithic originated from the words___?

Answer 10

• Paleo - old
• Lithos - stone

Question 11

Throughout this period of stone age, humans were food gatherers/hunters, depending on hunting wild animals and birds, fishing, and collecting wild fruits, nuts, and berries.

Answer 11

Paleolithic period

Question 12

What are the humans called during paleolithic period because they have no permanent shelters?

Answer 12

nomads

Question 13

a carving of a voluptuous woman out of ivory of stone. It is not definite as to what this carving means to the early humans, but historians infer that this is an ancient representation of beauty while for some, a penchant for fertility.

Answer 13

Venus

Question 14

Clothing made from the fur of the animals they hunted

Answer 14

Fur clothing

Question 15

Paleolithic period
It is a temporary shelters that they can bring with them and reassemble to a new location (due to their lifestyle).

Answer 15

Pit houses

Question 16

what are other inventions made of stone during paleolithic period?

Answer 16

ornaments and crude (not polished) hunting tools

Question 17

This period marked the end of the last Ice Age, which resulted in the extinction of many large mammals (like mammoths) and rising sea levels and climate change that eventually caused man to migrate

Answer 17

Mesolithic period

Question 18

Mesolithic Period
Humans used small stone tools , now also more polished and sometimes crafted with points and attached to antlers, bone, or wood to serve as spears and arrows known as

Answer 18

Microliths

Question 19

Mesolithic Period
How was microliths used?

Answer 19

Used for digging the ground and stitching clothes

Question 20

What was introduced during Mesolithic period , which led to more permanent settlements in villages

Answer 20

Agriculture

Question 21

During this period, ancient humans switched from hunter/gatherer mode to agriculture and food production

Answer 21

Neolithic period

Question 22

What period did humans domesticated animals and cultivated cereal grains.

Answer 22

neolithic Period

Question 23

Neolithic Period
They used ________ for ploughing and tilling the land and started to settle in the plains

Answer 23

polished hand axes

Question 24

What period did Advancements were made not only in tools but also in farming, home construction, and art, including pottery, sewing, and weaving?

Answer 24

Neolithic Period

Question 25

During this Age, advances in metalworking were made, as bronze, a copper and tin alloy, was discovered.
o

Answer 25

Bronze Age

Question 26

Bronze is made up of _________ and _____.

Answer 26

88% copper, 12% tin

Question 27

a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted

Answer 27

ores

Question 28

Organized government, law, and warfare, as well as beginnings of religion, also came into play during the ______.

Answer 28

Bronze Age

Question 29

The purpose of pyramids made by ancient Egyptians during Bronze Age.

Answer 29

To honor their dead pharaohs

Question 30

What are the earliest written accounts dated to Bronze Age?

Answer 30

Egyptian hieroglyphs and petroglyphs (rock engravings)

Question 31

The birth of smelting is discovered by _____?

Answer 31

Sumerians of Mesopotamia