World History Unit 1

What does the word ancestors mean?

• scientists who study people's culture

• bones of early people or animals

• the years before people used written language

• relatives who lived in earlier times

Archeologists learn about how people lived long ago mainly by studying ____________.

• trowels

• artifacts

• sieves

• footprints

Scientists believe homo sapiens were __________.

• bones from animals

• treasures from Egypt

• the first humans

• layers of objects

How do modern archaeologists usually begin to explore a site?

• They study objects in a laboratory.

• They make a grid of the area.

• They put piles of dirt on a screen.

• They dig into the earth with shovels.

Scientists think the first people in North America came from ___________.

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• Australia

What are nomads?

• people who grow their own food

• people who live in caves

• people who move from place to place

• people who live in cold regions

During the Stone Age, people used stone to ______________.

• make tools.

• build homes.

• make pictures.

• build walls.

What caused wooly mammoths to become extinct?

• People moved away

• The Ice Age ended

• People worked together

• Oceans froze

During the Ice Age, fire and clothing helped people to ____________.

• learn to catch fish

• communicate with others

• live in cold weather

• hunt birds and animals

What is irrigation?

• trading with others

• bringing water to crops

• breaking up soil

• using pictures to communicate