Early People

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Objective: answer at least 14 questions correctly. You are only allowed to answer each question once. JavaScript required!

1. Objects made by people long ago are called ____ .

values
glaciers
artifacts
shrines

2. Traditions that have developed over many years make up a culture's ____ .

legacy
language
government
society

3. The use of skills and tools that serve human needs is called ____ .

custom
society
archaeology
technology

4. The established form of ruling in a country is called the ____ .

legacy
government
culture
values

5. A personal diary is an example of a ____ .

resource
society
primary source
secondary source

6. At the beginning of the New Stone Age, people began ____ .

using iron
farming
sailing
gathering

7. People throughout the world have a need for ____ .

computers
warm clothing
geography
shelter

8. An example of a secondary source is a ____ .

photograph
birth record
textbook
letter

9. What achievement had the most significant effect on the growth of culture during the Old Stone Age?

language
tools
art
skills

10. What two developments resulted in the establishment of villages during the New Stone Age?

the shortage of animals for food and the creation of stone weapons
the domestication of animals and the cultivation of land
the movement of glaciers and the creation of lakes
sailing boats and making pottery

11. People who study the remains of past cultures are called ____ .

miners
obsidians
storytellers
archaeologists

12. Stone Age hunters made tools such as axes from ____ .

copper
wood
flint
steel

13. The food people eat often reflects their ____ .

culture
technology
profession
government

14. Families, clubs, and teams are types of ____ .

values
social groups
governments
customs

15. The growth in technology among early peoples was one result of ____ .

village life
cold weather
more shelters
nomadic life

16. The people of the Old Stone Age met their basic needs by ____ .

cooperating and sharing
living together in one place
moving to warmer climates
hunting and gathering

17. One achievement of people who lived during the Old Stone Age was ____ .

raising crops at one location
developing religious beliefs
domesticating some animals
creating storage containers

18. What led early people to settle in villages?

a steady food supply
improved trading routes
sailing boats
the beginning of language

19. Values are an important part of every culture because they reflect the ____ .

manner in which people meet their wants
way people live, believe, worship, and are governed
beliefs of the people who run the government
rights of the people to work, and play wherever they choose

20. The warming of the earth changed the lives of early people by allowing them to ____ .

develop more advanced tools and weapons for hunting
live apart from one another to develop differnet cultures
do less hunting since they no longer needed skins for heavy clothing
farm the land and spend more time in one place

Your score is out of 20.