Unit 2: Quiz 1 Early Humans

This period of early human history went from about 2.5 million BC to 8000 BC. It was a time before people knew how to use metal to make tools and weapons.

• Ancient Age
• Stone Age
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age

This technological advance changed people's lives by providing light, warmth, protection, and an improved diet.

• stone knives and weapons
• water sources
• fire
• clothing

During the Paleolithic Era, this was one of the most important technologies that people used to make their lives better.

• language
• cave painting
• art & religion
• tools

Communication changed for people in the Paleolithic Era, which allowed them to share ideas, emotions, and information like never before. What was the change?

• the development of spoken language
• the development of sign language
• the use of grunts and gestures
• the use of cave painting

Early Paleolithic people migrated to North America. How did this happen?

• by boat from Asia
• by boat from Europe
• by land bridge from Asia
• by land bridge from Europe

What word describes people that do not stay in one place, and instead keep moving around?

• travelers
• cavemen
• nomads
• hunters

These were long periods of cold that covered parts of the world in sheets of ice and created shallow areas in parts of the ocean.

• frozen time
• ice ages
• long winters
• stone ages

This refers to the earliest part of the Stone Age.

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic
• Bronze Age
• Caveman Times

What was discovered in the 1940's in the Lascaux area in southern France?

• Homes from paleolithic humans
• Weapons left behind from early humans.
• Cave paintings from paleolithic people
• Scrolls written by early humans

What word describes best the advancements early humans made in making tools, weapons, and fire?

• progress
• spoken language
• art & religion
• technology