Question 1

Historians call the earliest period of human history what?

Accepted Answer

Old Stone Age

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Bronze Age

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New Stone Age

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Ancient Age

Question 2

One of the most important technologies used by the Paleolithic people was what?

Accepted Answer

Stone Tools

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Copper Tools

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Bronze Tools

Question 3

What are two well-known Neolithic communities called?

Accepted Answer

Jericho and Catal Huyuk

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Greece and Rome

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Mexico and Egypt

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Europe and China

Question 4

Sumerian temples are called what?

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ziggurats

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mounds

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churches

Question 5

Sumerians who learned how to write often became what?

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Scribes

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Scribbles

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Poor

Question 6

What did Hammurabi create for the Babylonian kingdom?

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a law code

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sail boats

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a calendar

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the wheel

Question 7

People who made metal, cloth, and pottery products.

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Artisans

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Slaves

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Priests

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Merchants

Question 8

Where did the first civilizations start next to because farming conditions were good.

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Rivers

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Mountains

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Deserts

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Valleys

Question 9

What revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age that stopped the nomadic way of life?

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Farming

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Hunting

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Stone Tool Making

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Iron Tool Making

Question 10

The Paleolithic people were able to survive because they used what?

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Fire

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Bronze

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Water

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Farming

Question 11

Oldest known civilization and means "land between the rivers"

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Mesopotamia

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cuneiform

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city-state

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irrigation

Question 12

A method of bringing water to crops

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irrigation

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irritation

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imitation

Question 13

Has its own government but is not part of any larger unit

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city-state

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empire

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country

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city

Question 14

Complex societies that have organized governments, culture and writing

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Civilization

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Mesopotamia

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Neolithic

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Paleolithic

Question 15

A form of writing developed by the people of Sumer

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Cuneiform

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Alphabet

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Heiroglyphics

Question 16

Early weapons, tools, or other things that humans make

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artifacts

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fosssils

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nomads

Question 17

Studies human society

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Anthropologists

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Archaeologists

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Nomads

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Ziggurats

Question 18

Preserved remains of plants and animals made by nature

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fossils

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irrigation

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nomads

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artifacts

Question 19

Hunts for evidence of human settlements

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Archaeologists

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Ziggurats

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Nomads

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Anthropologists

Question 20

A person who moves from place to place regularly, usually within a group of people

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Nomads

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Anthropologists

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Ziggurats

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Farmers

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