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Complete Test bank, All Chapters are included. Page 1 Use the following to answer questions 1-16: A) An economic system based on herding flocks of goats, sheep, cattle, or other animals. B) Group of Homo erectus with brains as large as those of modern humans that lived in Europe and western Asia between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago. C) Differentiation of tasks by gender, age, training, status, or other social distinction. D) Idea that people, animals, plants, natural occurrences, and other parts of the physical world have spirits. E) Divisions between rich and poor, elites and common people, that have been a central feature of human society since the Neolithic era. F) Social system in which men have more power and access to resources than women and some men are dominant over other men. G) Period during which humans used tools of stone, bone, and wood and obtained food by gathering and hunting. Roughly 250,000–9000 B.C.E. H) Dramatic transformation in human history resulting from the change from foraging to raising crops and animals. I) A style of life in which people gain food by gathering plant products, trapping or catching small animals and birds, and hunting larger prey. J) Spiritually adept men and women who communicated with the unseen world. K) Period beginning in 9000 B.C.E. during which humans obtained food by raising crops and animals and continued to use tools primarily of stone, bone, and wood. L) Members of the family Hominidae that contains humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. M) Crop raising done with hand tools and human power. N) Die-off of large animals in many parts of the world about 45,000–10,000 B.C.E., caused by climate change and most likely human hunting. O) Plants and animals modified by selective breeding so as to serve human needs; these animals will behave in specific ways and breed in captivity. P) The practice of marrying within a certain ethnic or social group. 1.Paleolithic era 2.Agricultural Revolution 3.Neolithic era 4.hominids 5.megafaunal extinction Page 2 6.social hierarchies 7.foraging 8.animism 9.division of labor 10.patriarchy 11.Neanderthals 12.horticulture 13.pastoralism 14.domesticated 15.shamans 16.endogamy Page 3 Answer Key
1.G 2.H 3.K 4.L 5.N 6.E 7.I 8.D 9.C 10.F 11.B 12.M 13.A 14.O 15.J 16.P Page 1 1.How is the term species generally defined? A) A group of organisms that can communicate with one another B) A group of organisms that will share food with one another C) A group of organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring of both sexes D) A group of organisms that originate from a different ancestor 2.During which of the following periods did the ancestor common to both chimpanzees and humans probably live? A) 3 to 5 million years ago B) 5 to 7 million years ago C) 10 to 12 million years ago D) 12 to 14 million years ago 3.Scientists used which of the following to label the first periods of human history? A) The material used for tools B) The height of the human form C) Language ability and skill level D) The location of human settlements 4.Although the date varies by location, when did the shift to agriculture first occur? A) 3000 B.C.E. B) 15,000 B.C.E. C) 9000 B.C.E. D) 1000 B.C.E. 5.What term is used for the first fully bipedal hominid known to palaeontologists? A) Ardipithecus
B) Homo habilis
C) Australopithecus
D) Homo sapiens
6.Where did the earliest australopithecines live? A) Northern Africa B) Southern and eastern Africa C) Western and northern Africa D) Southern Africa Page 2 7.How did Homo erectus differ from modern humans? A) Homo erectus had a slightly smaller brain size than modern humans. B) Homo erectus had no capacity for making and using tools. C) Homo erectus lived in larger groups than modern humans. D) Homo erectus shared food preparations and gathering. 8.How did Homo erectus migrate from China about 1.5 million years ago to settle on Java? A) By sailing woven grass boats B) By walking over land C) By floating on planks D) By paddling canoes 9.Where did Homo sapiens first evolve? A) The Black Sea region B) The Nile Valley C) China D) East Africa 10.Why were better social skills especially important for early human females? A) They needed help with food gathering. B) They needed help with home building. C) They needed help with attracting a mate. D) They needed help with child rearing. 11.Which of the following skills did Homo sapiens acquire around 25,000 years ago? A) The capacity to weave cloth B) The capacity to make tools from stone C) The capacity to domesticate sheep D) The capacity to use fire for warmth 12.Which of the following is evidence that Neanderthals understood death to have significance? A) They drew pictures of the dead on walls. B) They buried the dead with symbolic objects. C) They wrote stories about the meaning of death. D) They built large funerary monuments. Page 3 13.The Neanderthals of Europe were a branch of what hominid group? A) Homo sapiens
B) Homo habilis
C) Australopithecus
D) Homo erectus
14.Neanderthals lived side by side with which of the following for millennia? A) Homo sapiens
B) Cro-Magnon C) Homo habilis
D) Australopithecus
15.Which of the following allowed Homo sapiens to migrate to Australia and New Guinea?
A) Simple rafts B) Land bridges C) Large boats D) Swimming 16.What was one of the results of endogamy? A) An increase in fertility B) A lack of diversity of languages C) The inability of Homo sapiens to mate with one another D) Differences in physical features and spoken language 17.The term forager is now used by historians instead of what traditional term? A) Hunter-gatherer B) Stone-age man C) Caveman D) First people 18.Which of the following foods dominated the diet of Paleolithic foragers? A) Trapped animals B) Fish C) Hunted animals D) Plants Page 4 19.Paleolithic humans may have encouraged the growth of new plants by doing what? A) Planting seeds B) Hunting large game C) Harvesting crops D) Setting fires 20.How many hours a week did early foragers generally spend gathering food? A) One to three hours B) Forty hours C) Fifty hours or more D) Ten to twenty hours 21.Which of the following is true of Paleolithic mating patterns? A) Most Paleolithic humans sought mates from outside their kinship groups. B) Mates were usually selected from within the same kinship group. C) Most mates were purchased from a distant tribal group. D) Mates were generally people taken captive in conflict. 22.The burial sites of Paleolithic humans reveal that they believed that all things and natural occurrences had which of the following? A) Meaning B) Economic value C) Danger D) Spirits 23.What did Paleolithic peoples believe about dead members of their kinship groups? A) That the dead were gone forever B) That deceased family members were still with them C) That the dead became new gods D) That the dead would return one day 24.Who in Paleolithic society was believed to regularly receive messages from the spirit world? A) The chief B) The shaman C) The king D) The warriors Page 5 25.What was one of the shaman's primary duties? A) Healing the sick B) Leading the war band C) Harvesting crops D) Leading building projects 26.What discovery marks the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic? A) Stone tools B) Religion C) Burial D) Agriculture 27.What major climate change occurred about 15,000 years ago? A) Temperatures warmed and glaciers melted. B) Monsoon patterns began. C) Temperatures became slightly colder. D) El Nino wind patterns first developed. 28.What term describes a crop that has been modified by selective breeding? A) Trained B) Marketed C) Domesticated D) Husbanded 29.Horticulture refers to the growing of plants using what tool? A) Clubs B) Plows C) Digging sticks D) Sickles 30.Beginning about 9000 B.C.E., people in the Fertile Crescent began to domesticate what crop? A) Yams B) Wheat C) Squash D) Rice
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