Prehistory and Early Humans Test - M
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- Q1
Early relatives to modern day humans
hominids
Society
300s - Q2
Movement from one location to another, in order to establish a new permanent settlement
Nomads
migration
300s - Q3
Time period before written records
Prehistory
Hominids
300s - Q4
Period of time where humans invented and primarily used stone tools.
Ice Ages
Stone Ages
300s - Q5
Group of people living within a community
Society
nomads
300s - Q6
"Wise man" and the group including modern-day humans, which is believed to be the first hominid to develop language.
Homo Sapiens
Neandethals
300s - Q7
Large scale shift from hunting/gathering to farming, which allowed humans to produce large quantities of food.
Agricultural Revolution
Ice Age
300s - Q8
Time periods with consistently freezing temperatures throughout the world.
Ice Ages
Stone Ages
300s - Q9
Study of humans and their development, including human culture and human behavior.
Society
Anthropology
300s - Q10
Planting foods and breeding animals that are useful for humans
Domestication
Migration
300s - Q11
People without a permanent home, either individually or as a community, who move from place to place.
Homo Sapiens
Nomads
300s - Q12
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to acquire food.
Hominids
hunter/gatherers
300s - Q13
Why is it difficult for historians to know exact facts and dates about prehistory?
The Ice Age destroyed all of the artifacts left behind by early hominids.
There are no written records of what happened during this time.
300s - Q14
Which group of people studies prehistory based upon what earlier people left behind?
linguists
archaeologists
300s - Q15
The oldest human fossils ever discovered indicate humans originally lived on what continent?
Africa
Asia
300s