A HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES ACTUAL
TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Paleolithic
Answer: Period during which humans used tools of stone, bone, and
wood and obtained food by gathering and hunting
●● Foraging
Answer: A style of life in which people gain food by gathering plant
products, trapping or catching small animals and birds, and hunting
larger prey
●● Neolithic
Answer: Period beginning in 9000 B.C.E during which humans obtained
food by raising crops and animals and continued to use tolls primarily of
stone, bone, and wood
●● Neanderthals
Answer: Group of Homo erectus with brains as large as those of modern
humans that flourished in Europe and western Asia between 150,000 and
30,000 years ago
, ●● Megafaunal Extinction
Answer: Die-off of large animals in many parts of the world about
15,000-10,000 B.C.E, caused by climate change and perhaps human
hunting
●● Division of Labor
Answer: Differentiation of tasks by gender, age, training status, or other
social distinction
●● Animism
Answer: Idea that people, animals, plants, natural occurrences, and other
parts of the physical world have spirits
●● Shamans
Answer: Spiritually adept and women who communicated with the
unseen world
●● Agricultural Revolution
Answer: Dramatic transformation in human history resulting from the
change from foraging to raising crops and animals
●● Domesticated
TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Paleolithic
Answer: Period during which humans used tools of stone, bone, and
wood and obtained food by gathering and hunting
●● Foraging
Answer: A style of life in which people gain food by gathering plant
products, trapping or catching small animals and birds, and hunting
larger prey
●● Neolithic
Answer: Period beginning in 9000 B.C.E during which humans obtained
food by raising crops and animals and continued to use tolls primarily of
stone, bone, and wood
●● Neanderthals
Answer: Group of Homo erectus with brains as large as those of modern
humans that flourished in Europe and western Asia between 150,000 and
30,000 years ago
, ●● Megafaunal Extinction
Answer: Die-off of large animals in many parts of the world about
15,000-10,000 B.C.E, caused by climate change and perhaps human
hunting
●● Division of Labor
Answer: Differentiation of tasks by gender, age, training status, or other
social distinction
●● Animism
Answer: Idea that people, animals, plants, natural occurrences, and other
parts of the physical world have spirits
●● Shamans
Answer: Spiritually adept and women who communicated with the
unseen world
●● Agricultural Revolution
Answer: Dramatic transformation in human history resulting from the
change from foraging to raising crops and animals
●● Domesticated
