WH Semester I Exam

Archaeologists refer to the period of time before people invented writing systems as

• geography
• paleolithic
• prehistory
• archaeology

Historians are like archaeologists in that they both study how people lived by examining

• latitude and longitude
• plants and animals
• artifacts and fossils
• regions

Where did the first cities emerge?

• along trade routes
• in river valleys
• along the Mediterranean coast
• in the Americas

Which of the following caused ancient civilizations to change?

• lack of traditions
• poor leaders
• contact with other people through trade, warfare, and migration
• nomadic herders

What part of the world did the first hominids come from?

• Africa
• Europe
• South America
• Asia

Why was the Neolithic Revolution important to history?

• It contributed to the establishment of civilization.
• It brought about the outbreak of many wars
• It helped to establish nomadic tribes across the world.
• It caused the outbreak of epidemic diseases.

Which was a key feature of early civilizations?

• advanced cities
• social equality
• a system of exchanging goods for money
• steelmaking

Complex societies with advanced knowledge of farming, trade, government and art are

• cultures
• cooperatives
• civilizations
• agricultural villages

People who specialized in jobs and became skilled craftworkers were known as

• artisans
• priests
• nobles
• scribes

First human like creatures, walked upright, traced back to 4.4 million years ago

• Cro-Magnun
• Neanderthal
• hominids
• ninjas