Unit 1 Test

Question 1

Five Themes of Social Studies

Answer 1

History, Geography, Economics, Civics/Government, and Culture/Society

Question 2

History

Answer 2

Study of past events

Question 3

Historian

Answer 3

Someone who tries to reconstruct past event and why it happened

Question 4

Ancient History

Answer 4

60,000 BCE - 650 CE

Question 5

Post-Classical History

Answer 5

500 - 1500

Question 6

Modern History

Answer 6

1500 - Present

Question 7

2 Types of Historical Sources

Answer 7

Primary source(original document from that time) and secondary source(document made by primary sources)

Question 7

History allows us to understand…

Answer 7

How and why people are in a particular play, societies changed over time, and tech impacted life; Aspects of culture held by group

Question 8

Chronology

Answer 8

Studying the order in which events happened

Question 9

BCE

Answer 9

Before Common Era (Goes from highest Yeager to lowest year)

Question 10

BC

Answer 10

Before Christ

Question 11

History relies on 2 subjects

Answer 11

Anthropology & Archaeology

Question 12

Anthropology

Answer 12

Study of humans, human behavior, and societies in the past and present

Question 13

Archaeology

Answer 13

Study of past cultures by analyzing the artifacts, architecture, and other items leftt behind from past civilizations

Question 14

Humans originated from…

Answer 14

Central Eastern Africa and gradually migrated to the rest of the world

Question 15

When was the earliest hominid?

Answer 15

5 million years ago, walked upright, could make tools

Question 16

2 early hominids

Answer 16

Homo Erectus & Neanderthals (could control fire & elaborate burials

Question 17

Stone Age lasted…

Answer 17

2.489 million years ago

Question 17

Paleolithic Age

Answer 17

Lasted 2.5 million years (First Sub-Period)

Question 18

Last Ice Age impacted human history

Answer 18

Sea levels dropped, connecting continents

Question 18

After Ice age…

Answer 18

Humans in the Americas were isolated from other continents (isolated until Columbus arrived)

Question 19

Mesolithic Age

Answer 19

10,000 - 6,000 years ago (Second Sub-Period)

Question 20

Paleolithic Characteristics

Answer 20

Hunter-gatherers, nomadic, lived in small groups, kinship, varied diet, few belongings, no wealth/social class/knowledge of farming/domestication/writing, egalitarian society, rely on oral traditions, elaborate burials, complex religious beliefs, made tools of stone, wood, and bone, and created art

Question 20

Neolithic Age

Answer 20

Started around 7,000 BCE (Third Sub-Period)

Question 21

New Technology

Answer 21

Stone tools, choppers, scrapers, digging tools, traps, wooden spears, etc.

Question 22

Composite Tools

Answer 22

Tools that are combined more than one material

Question 23

Invention of clothing lead to…

Answer 23

Movement in colder climate

Question 24

Culture of Paleolithic Society

Answer 24

Complex beliefs/culture
Believed in after life

Question 24

Woman in Paleolithic Society

Answer 24

Participated in most activities as men, produced more food

Question 25

Diffusion

Answer 25

Idea of agriculture spread within regions

Question 26

Neolithic people domesticated…

Answer 26

Grain, Legumes (beans and peas), Sheep, Goats, Camels, Cows

Question 27

Some people stuck with domesticated animals…

Answer 27

Became Nomadic and formed pastoral societies; moved around with their herd to find greener pastures; they spread info and ideas form pace to place