World History - Chapter 1.1-1.2 Quiz Review

What played a key role in domestication?

Early hunters' understanding of wild animals

Which of the following occupations came into existence due to specialization in early village societies?

blacksmiths

How did prehistoric hunter gatherers increase their food supply?

by inventing tools

How do scientists differentiate Homo sapiens from Homo erectus?

by the size of their brains

Which term best describes life as it existed in the earliest villages?

demanding

What are several examples of domesticated animals?

horses, dogs, goats, pigs

nomads whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.

hunter-gatherers

highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging, or searching, for new sources of food.

nomads

Which of the following is a domesticated animal? Mare, deer, sheep, or squirrel?

sheep

a way of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs

technology

Settling down into smaller villages had which of the following effects on population?

Greater exposure to disease

Which of the following modern countries is located within the Fertile Crescent? Japan, Peru, Australia, or Iraq?

Iraq

Known as the new stone age and began at about 8,000 B.C. and lasted until about 3,000 B.C. In some areas, people who lived in this second phase of the Stone Age learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals.

Neolithic Age

describes the far-reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming, also known as the agricultural revolution

Neolithic Revolution

the taming of wild animals

domestication

the development of agriculture caused an increase in population and the growth of a settled way of life.

economics

How did early villages develop food surpluses?

farming

the species name scientists give to modern humans, means "wise men"

homo sapien

What did homo erectus evolve into?

homo sapiens

Which of the following people might be at the top of the hierarchy of an early village society?

priest

The practice of cutting trees or grasses and burning them to clear a field. The ashes that remained fertilized the soil. Farmers planted crops for a year or two, then moved to another area of land. After several years, trees and grass grew back and other farmers repeated the process.

slash-and-burn farming

Hunter-gatherer societies were nomadic. What does this mean?

They moved from place to place.

How did the earliest villagers compare to their hunter-gatherer counterparts?

Villagers most likely were smaller and less healthy because they were exposed to disease and they didn't exercise as much. (The hunter-gatherers were in better shape)