test review 1 Flashcards
“Near __________ somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. It was a human bone. A lower jaw.”
Answer not listed
reason: “Near Heidelberg, in Germany, somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground.”
How did the skull discovered in Germany differ from our human skulls?
Instead of a forehead like ours, it just had two thick ridges above the eyebrows.
reason: “Instead of a forehead like ours, it just had two thick ridges above the eyebrows.”
What gives “prehistory” its name?
It comes before history.
reason: “It comes before history. That is why we call it ‘prehistory,’ because we only have a rough idea of when it all happened.”
Which examples of materials did scientists find that change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time?
woods and plants and volcanic rocks
reason: “Scientists have found that certain materials, such as woods and plants and volcanic rocks, change slowly and regularly over a very long period of time.”
Why do historians call it the “Stone Age”?
Answer not listed
reason: “And because of these stone tools we call this time the Stone Age.”
About how long did the Neanderthal people inhabit the earth?
Answer not listed
reason: “They were different than from the Neanderthal people who … inhabited the earth for about two hundred thousand years.”
About how long ago did the Neanderthal people appear in prehistory before our ancestors?
Seventy thousand years earlier
reason: “They were different from the Neanderthal people who appeared about seventy thousand years earlier …”
What was the climate like during The Stone Age?
Winters were longer and summers shorter.
reason: “Winters were longer and summers shorter.”
“Do you know what __________ invented? … They invented talking.”
Cavemen
reason: “Do you know what these cavemen invented? Can’t you guess? They invented talking.”
Which of the following were not invented or developed by prehistoric people?
Answer not listed
reason: “…clothes, houses and tools, plows to plow with, grains to make bread with, cows for milking, sheep for shearing, dogs for hunting and for company, bows and arrows for shooting and helmets and shields for protection…”
How long did The Ice Age last?
Many tens of thousands of years!
reason: N/A
What reasoning did the writer give for why cavemen drew and painted in caves?
To summon creatures like a magic spell
reason: “We think they have been trying to make magic, that they believed that painting pictures of animals on the walls would make those animals appear … So they may have been trying to invent a magic spell.”
Because forests were dangerous places in those days, home to large numbers of wild animals, such as wolves and bears, prehistoric people built __________.
Pile dwellings
reason: “Because forests were dangerous places in those days, home to large numbers of wild animals such as wolves and bears, people … built ‘pile dwellings’”
What were “pile dwellings”?
Huts on stilts rammed deep in the mud in the middle of lakes
reason: “‘pile dwellings [were built] in the middle of lakes, huts on stilts rammed deep in the mud.”
What did prehistoric people invent and decorate with patterns and fire in ovens?
Clay pots
reason: Prehistoric “people discovered was how to make pots out of clay, which they soon learnt to decorate with patterns and fire in ovens.”
What did the cavemen learn to do in the warmth once the ice retreated to the high mountains?
To plant grasses and then grind the seeds to make a paste to bake in the fire: bread
reason: “But gradually the earth grew warmer and the ice retreated to the high mountains, and people—who by now were much like us—learned, with the warmth, to plant grasses and then grind the seeds to make a paste which they could bake in the fire, and this was bread.”
