History Quiz

Which term refers to the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when humans were hunter gatherers and constantly on the move seeking food?

• Neolithic

• Paleolithic

• Civilization

• Revolution

What is the term for a significant change in the way people live, often involving the overthrow of a government or social order?

• Agriculture

• Revolution

• Bias

• Perspective

Which term describes the practice of farming, including the cultivation of soil for growing crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products?

• Civilization

• Agriculture

• Primary source

• Context

What is the term for an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached?

• Civilization

• Neolithic

• Secondary source

• Corroborate

What is the term for an original document or other historical material that was created by someone who was there?

• Secondary source

• Primary source

• Context

• Corroborate

What is the term for a document or recording that relates or discusses historical information from someone who was not present during the time period?

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Bias

• Perspective

Which term refers to a prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair?

• Bias

• Perspective

• Context

• Corroborate

What is the term used that is another word for point of view?

• Context

• Perspective

• Primary source

• Agriculture

Which term means to add up all the evidence and determine that something is true or not?

• Corroborate

• Bias

• Revolution

• Civilization

What is the term for the circumstances, setting, or big picture of a historical event that helps give more meaning to what actually happened?

• Context

• Perspective

• Primary source

• Agriculture