Midterm Review: Chapter 1

Question 0

When/where did hominids first emerge?

Answer 0

5-7million years ago in East Africa

Question 1

What is not a Characteristic of the Paleolithic period?

Answer 1

Agriculture

Question 2

What was the earliest and Longest period of civilization?

Answer 2

The Paleolithic period

Question 3

What is not true about hominids?

Answer 3

Most early hominids survived and evolved into modern-day humans

Question 4

When was the Paleolithic period?

Answer 4

2,000,000 B.C.E. Until 10,000 B.C.E.

Question 5

What is the other name for the Paleolithic Age?

Answer 5

The Old Stone Age

Question 6

When was the Neolithic time period?

Answer 6

10,000 B.C.E. to 3,000 B.C.E.

Question 7

Paleolithic Period

Answer 7

The period of the earliest and longest stage of human cultural development, lasting from approximately 2,000,000 B.C.E. Until about 10,000 B.C.E.; also known as the Old Stone Age

Question 8

Neolithic

Answer 8

The period between 10,000 and 3,000 B.C.E., during which people developed better tools, domesticated plants and animals, cultivated crops, herded livestock, and a stablished permanent settlements; also known as the New Stone Age or the Agricultural Revolution

Question 9

Great Ice Age

Answer 9

An immense stretch of time (roughly 2,000,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE) marked by frigid glacial stages when enormous ice masses called glaciers spread across much of the globe

Question 10

What is another name for the great ice age?

Answer 10

The Pleistocene epoch

Question 11

Foragers

Answer 11

Those who subsist by gathering wild plant foods and hunting wild animals

Question 12

Neanderthals

Answer 12

A group of large-brained hominids whose remains were first discovered in 1856 in Germany’s Neander valley, existed from roughly 200,000 to 30,000 years ago

Question 13

Are Homo Sapiens descended from Neanderthals?

Answer 13

No

Question 14

What was the impact of the great Ice Age on human development?

Answer 14

Humans spread throughout the globe and developed new skills

Question 15

Which continent on earth was uninhibited 1,000 years ago?

Answer 15

Antarctica

Question 16

What ancestry do we all share?

Answer 16

We all have African ancestry

Question 17

What are the physical characteristics of humans living farther from the equator compared to those of humans living closer to the equator?

Answer 17

People farther from the equator have lighter skin and more hair;
People closer to the equator have darker skin and less hair

Question 18

Which was not an accomplishment of the Paleolithic period?

Answer 18

Writing and sculpting were NOT accomplishments of the Paleolithic period

Question 19

What was the defining characteristic if the Neolithic time period?

Answer 19

Agriculture

Question 20

Name an innovation that accompanied the advent of farming:

Answer 20

The herding of animals

Question 21

What food is common among all early agriculture?

Answer 21

Grain

Question 22

Why did farming lead to larger populations?

Answer 22

Because farming supplied people with enough food to support larger families

Question 23

In which continent was farming NOT accompanied by herding?

Answer 23

North America

Question 24

Patriarchal

Answer 24

Ruled by men

Question 25

What would need to be present to form a large, complex, society?

Answer 25

Ample food to support a large population (agriculture)

Question 26

What new thing during the Neolithic era lead to the development if specialized occupations?

Answer 26

More food meant that a people could have specialized trades