Era 1 And Era 2: Our Big History - Early Humans Question Preview (ID: 61377)


Era 1 Era 2 Introduced You To The Study Of History, Early Humans, And The Agricultural Revolution. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Which of the following best describes the practice of foraging?
a) The collecting of food which took all day, giving early human communities little free time
b) The practice of using the seeds you find in the forest to plant crops of your own
c) The use of what nature provides for sustenance through hunting and gathering
d) A uniquely human behavior where one collects, gathers and hunts for food

Why did foraging communities want to limit their population size?
a) They kept their communities smaller because they had to move around once the resources in the area were depleted.
b) They kept their communities small so they could maintain a single leader.
c) They kept their communities smaller to avoid contact with other communities.
d) They kept their communities small to avoid predatory animals.

How have past historians usually defined pre-history?
a) Pre-history was everything that happened until the dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago.
b) Pre-history is the time before modern humans first appeared, between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.
c) Pre-history refers to the time before our earliest evidence of humans keeping written records.
d) Pre-history is the preparation historians do before drawing conclusions about historical events.

How did most Neolithic societies live?
a) They were fairly egalitarian and produced food through a mix of foraging and farming.
b) They were hierarchical and produced food through mostly farming.
c) They were fairly egalitarian and produced food mostly through pastoralism.
d) They were hierarchical and produced food largely by foraging.

What is a forager? Choose the best answer.
a) Foragers are people who get their food by domesticating animals.
b) Foragers are nomadic people who move to avoid state control.
c) Foragers are people who get their food by hunting or gathering wild fruit, roots, and grains.
d) Foragers are people who settled along river valleys to cultivate grains.

Farming was an important development in human history. What made this development so important?
a) Farming allowed families to spread out and explore more territories alone in isolation.
b) Farming allowed humans to have control over all animals within their environment.
c) Farming created the opportunity for women to run their homes and raise their children while their husbands worked in the fiel
d) Farming allowed humans to settle in one place, create stable communities, and specialize labor.

Records of cultures and societies could easily be kept without a system of writing.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

By about 5000 B.C.E., agriculture had displaced hunting and gathering societies in several regions of the world, primarily because
a) cultivation required much less work than hunting and gathering
b) cultivation provided a relatively stable and regular supply of food
c) human beings had mastered agricultural knowledge and technique
d) agriculture led to a more varied diet

People who wander from place to place are referred to as ______.
a) Cro-Magnons
b) Hunters
c) Hominids
d) Nomads

What general cultural trend could be seen in early Paleolithic communities?
a) Each community had their own entirely distinct culture with little overlap.
b) The closer human communities were, the more different their culture was.
c) All early Paleolithic communities had a similar culture since they were all foragers.
d) The farther apart humans were, the more different their culture was.

What were some of the massive drawbacks of agriculture, that continue to impact us in many ways today?
a) The increase of genetic diversity among plants as a result of farming
b) The lack of a controllable food supply
c) The inability of agriculture to provide a food surplus to populations
d) Negative impacts on the environment and the formation of social hierarchies

Where did early humans tend to settle and why?
a) On shores, because coastal areas were more temperate
b) Near water, because fish were easy and safe to hunt
c) On hills, because they were easy to protect from attackers
d) Near prairies, because there were plenty of animals to hunt

Which of the following best describes how farming came to be?
a) Slowly and unintentionally
b) Slowly and intentionally
c) Quickly and unintentionally
d) Quickly and intentionally

Why did agriculture lead to an increase in infectious diseases?
a) Urban areas like cities contained rats that carried diseases
b) Repetitive work put stress on bones and muscles
c) Closer proximity to domesticated animals and other human
d) Trade networks that spread diseases quicker

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