unit 1 history test 2024

Question 1

Paleolithic Age

Answer 1

about 2.5 million years ago. People lived in teepees, caves or holes in the ground and bushes. And used basic tools like bone stone and wood.

Question 1

Neolithic Revolution

Answer 1

A critical change that resulted in the birth of agriculture.

Question 2

Artifacts

Answer 2

Old or lost items from way back then made by humans.

Question 3

Anthropology

Answer 3

The study of life and culture

Question 4

Archeology

Answer 4

The study of fossils and plants.

Question 5

Fossil

Answer 5

Preserved items from pre-historic times.

Question 6

Radiocarbon dating

Answer 6

All living things absorb a small amount of carbon or C14. The older the object is the less carbo it has. Because it slowly releases carbon out of it. (only used up to 50,000 years old.

Question 7

Civilization

Answer 7

During the Paleolithic Age, hominins grouped together in small societies such as bands and subsisted by gathering plants, fishing, and hunting or scavenging wild animals.

Question 8

Prehistory

Answer 8

A time where there wasn’t documented things, or documented history.

Question 9

Purpose of fire

Answer 9

So you can gain light, cook, heat, defense, weapon.

Question 10

Artisans

Answer 10

A skilled worker or craftsman.

Question 11

Gender Roles

Answer 11

This is almost the only time where women and men where equal. Usually the man would hunt for food, while the woman stayed at the camp collecting supplies or helping out

Question 12

Out of Africa Theory

Answer 12

People migrated out of Africa and developed in different places.

Question 13

Homo Erectus

Answer 13

Meaning “upright man”. AKA the first genus of homo.

Question 14

Homo Sapien

Answer 14

Meaning human

Question 15

Homo Sapiens Sapien

Answer 15

Meaning wise human

Question 16

Type of tools early humans use

Answer 16

They used stone tools, stone cores, tools made out of antlers and bones, and wood.

Question 17

Type of tools used during Neolithic period

Answer 17

They used axes, hammers, blades, and arrow heads.

Question 18

Shelters

Answer 18

In the Paleolithic era they used caves, holes in the ground, bushes, and rarely teepees. And in the neolithic era they made house-like shelters.

Question 19

Systematic Agriculture

Answer 19

Systematic agriculture is the deliberate planting and growing of crops and raising of animals for the purpose of consumption.

Question 20

Domestication

Answer 20

The ownership of animals, like cows, sheep, ect.

Question 21

Culture

Answer 21

Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation.

Question 22

Civilization

Answer 22

taking Homo sapiens from scattered groups of hunter-gatherers to farming villages and from there to technologically sophisticated societies with great temples and towers and kings and priests

Question 23

6 Characteristics of monarch

Answer 23

A. The kings or queens are selected by the people.
B. It is hereditary in nature.
C. The king or queen controls almost all parts of the government.
D. The king or queen changes when people are not satisfied with his/ her service

Question 24

Bronze Age

Answer 24

around 2,000BC to 700BC when people used bronze.

Question 25

Iron Age

Answer 25

In Central and Western Europe, the Iron Age lasted from c. 800 BC to c. 1 BC,

Question 26

Olduvai Gorge

Answer 26

Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropological site in the eastern Serengeti Plain, within the boundaries of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania. It is a steep-sided ravine consisting of two branches that have a combined length of about 30 miles (48 km) and are 295 feet (90 metres) deep. Deposits exposed in the sides of the gorge cover a time span from about 2.1 million to 15,000 years ago. The deposits have yielded the fossil remains of more than 60 hominins (members of the human lineage), providing the most continuous known record of human evolution during the past 2 million years,

Question 27

What can be determined about history based on the artifacts left behind?

Answer 27

We can determine they history of artifacts by looking the details of them. We can tell if they had civilizations, education, economy, or culture.

Question 28

Explain how life changed as a result of the Neolithic Revolution.

Answer 28

One part of humankind turned its back on foraging and embraced agriculture. The adoption of farming brought with it further transformations. To tend their fields, people had to stop wandering and move into permanent villages, where they developed new tools and created pottery.

Question 29

How did fire, agriculture and tools change the lives of humans?

Answer 29

Control of fire provided a new tool with several uses—including cooking, which led to a fundamental change in the early human diet. Cooking released nutrients in foods and made them easier to digest. It also rid some plants of poisons. n roughly 10,000 to 15,000 years, advances in agriculture have allowed the human population to become roughly 1000 times larger or more than 2 million years, early humans used these tools to cut, pound, crush, and access new foods—including meat from large animals.