Section 1.1

Question 1

What does Neolithic mean?

Answer 1

New Stone Age

Question 2

Where did human beings first evolve?

Answer 2

Eastern Africa

Question 3

What factor is responsible for humans going from hunter-gatherers to sedentary village dwellers to the builders of large cities with Hugh populations?

Answer 3

Agriculture; it increased and secured the supply of food so that more and more humans could be sustained (this includes the domestication of animals).

Question 4

What are some of the main characteristics of the human species?

Answer 4

Humans can manipulate objects well because of opposable thumbs, we are omnivores which allows us to survive in varied climates, we have a distinctive brain allowing for elaborate speech and knowledge for inventions.

Question 5

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)

Answer 5

Time span from 2 million years ago until 14,000 years ago

Question 6

Homo Erectus

Answer 6

A less ape like species of humans in which a larger brain and more erect stature allowed for better and more complicated tool use (between 500,000 and 750,000 years ago).

Question 7

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Answer 7

Originated around 120,000 years ago, very successful, modern day humans are descendants of them.