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)
