Honors World
Chapter Assessment p. 26
1) The way of life of a society is its culture.
2) Donald Johanson gave the name Lucy to an
australopithecine skeleton.
3) The Paleothithic Period lasted
from at least 1 million BCE to about 10,000 BCE.
4) Jericho was a tiny Neolithic village
surrounded by a huge wall.
5) A highly organized social order is a civilization.
6) People who believe in many gods are polytheistic.
7) A group of states or territories
controlled by one ruler is an empire.
8) In what part of the world did the
earliest hominids live?
A) Africa
9) For what purposes did hominids create
stone tools?
A) For cutting, scraping, chopping, or
sawing plants, animals, and wood; digging; shattering stone or bone; and boring
holes into hard surfaces
10)
How
did Old Stone Age people find food?
A) By hunting, fishing, or gathering
11)
What
change marked the beginning of the New Stone Age? In what ways did this change alter people’s
way of life?
A) The New Stone Age began when people
learned to farm. People no longer had to
roam to find food, so they could settle permanently in one place. This led to the establishment of the first
villages and later to civilizations.
12)
In
which four river valleys did early civilizations emerge?
A) The valley of the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers in the Middle East
B) The valley of the Nile River in Egypt
C) The valley of the Indus River in
India
D) The valley of the Huang River in
China
13)
List
the eight basic features of most early civilizations
A) Cities
B) Organized governments
C) Complex religions
D) Job specialization
E) Social classes
F) Arts and architecture
G) Public works
H) Writing
14)
What
was life like in early times, and how did it change as civilizations began to
develop?
A) Before civilizations, people were
nomads who roamed in search of food. As
civilizations developed, people began to settle permanently in large population
centers, develop specialized jobs, organized governments, and build complex
cultures and cities.
15)
How
does this cartoon reflect the challenges that archaeologists face when
interpreting the evidence that they find?
A) It shows that there is often some
guess work involved.
16)
Many
scholars interpret evidence such as cave paintings and burials indications of
early people’s beliefs. How do you think
material remains help show people’s feelings and thoughts?
17)
Think
about the ways of life of both early nomads and early farmers. How do you think geography affected each
group in both positive and negative ways?
A) Geography could have positively
affected nomads by offering them food to gather, animals to hunt, and places to
take shelter, or negatively affected them by not offering these things. It could have positively affected early
farmers by offering them good land for farming, raising animals, and building
villages or cities, or negatively affected them by not offering these things.
18)
Before
writing systems were invented people had to share and remember ideas, customs,
and technology by word of mouth. How do
you think writing eventually changed this?
A) With the ability to write, people
could records their ideas, customs, and technology and thus make t hem last
beyond the span of a person’s life.
Writing also allowed knowledge to be spread more widely, because people
could copy information and share it with many others, instead of relying on one
person to share it by word of mouth.
19)
Which
feature(s) of civilizations do you think most allowed empires to develop?
Document-Based
Assessment
1) D Homo
floresiensis
2) B
The tiny hominids were juveniles
3) D
The Homo floresiensis skull pictured is older than the modern human
skull pictured
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