World History ~ Ancient World Ch. 1 Test Question Preview (ID: 43335)


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Supplying land with water through a network of canals
a) irrigation
b) surplus
c) artisan
d) civilization

more than is needed
a) irrigation
b) surplus
c) artisan
d) civilization

a worker who is especially skilled at crafting items by hand
a) irrigation
b) artisan
c) surplus
d) social class

A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
a) civilization
b) social class
c) surplus
d) nomad

a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living
a) social class
b) civilization
c) artisan
d) nomad

a modern human or a member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans
a) artisan
b) social class
c) nomad
d) hominid

A period of time during which early humans made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of prehistoric culture
a) social class
b) Stone Age
c) domesticate
d) archaeologist

a person who has no settled home
a) nomad
b) hominid
c) artisan
d) archaeologist

to adapt wild plants or tame wild animals and to breed them for human use
a) hominid
b) domesticate
c) archaeology
d) geography

written and other recorded events of people
a) prehistory
b) history
c) oral traditions
d) surplus

Time before writing was invented
a) prehistory
b) history
c) nomad
d) irrigation

A scientist who examines objects to learn about the human past.
a) archaeologist
b) artisan
c) nomad
d) sandwich artist

stories passed down by word of mouth
a) oral traditions
b) domesticate
c) archaeologist
d) Stone Age

the study of Earth's surface and the processes that shape it
a) prehistory
b) history
c) taxology
d) geography

Scientists learned more about the Iceman's life by studying _____________.
a) his clothes, tools, and body
b) his oral traditions
c) the geography of Asia
d) this textbook

Egyptians built farms on the banks of the Amazon River. True or False?
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Almost all of human prehistory took place during the _______________
a) Old Stone Age
b) New Stone Age
c) Bronze Age
d) Broze Age

Why did the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age begin (what separates them)?
a) hunting in groups
b) beginning of farming
c) written documents
d) because Mr. D was born in the New Stone Age

How did farming change the way early people lived?
a) they built hospitals
b) they stopped eating meat
c) they settled in one place
d) they built schools

Some farming settlements became cities because of a dependable ____________ source.
a) water
b) copper
c) bronze
d) dog

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