practice test bank questions, final exam : World Civilizations The Global Experience,Combined Volume - Stearns -8e- [2026 Semester]

Chapter 1
The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization


Multiple-Choice Questiоns

1) Which of these first developed in the Paleolithic Age?
A) Ffarming
B) Ttowns
C) Ggovernments
D) Llanguage
Answer: D
Difficulty: Moderate
A-head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
Difficulty: Moderate
Bloom’s: Remember the Facts

2) Homo sapiens had become essentially similar to modern humans by about ________.
A) 12,000 B.C.E.
B) 100,000 B.C.E.
C) 2,000 B.C.E.
D) 120 B.C.E.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Moderate
A-Head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
Difficulty: Moderate
Bloom’s: Remember the Facts

3) What was one of the technological advances of the Paleolithic peoples?
A) Ccaves
B) Mmonumental architecturаl structures
C) Sstone tools
D) Bbronze tools
Answer: C
Difficulty: Moderate
A-head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gаtherers
Difficulty: Moderate
Bloom’s: Remember the Facts

4) The continent on which humans originated was ________.
A) Asia.
B) Africa.
C) Europe.
D) Australia.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Easy
A-head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
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,5) The Neolithic revolution occurred from ________.
A) 3000 to 500 B.C.E.
B) 85000 to 3500 B.C.E.
C) 12,000 to 8000 B.C.E.
D) 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.
Answer: B
Difficulty: Moderate
A-head: Agriculture and the Origins of Civilizations: The Neolithic Transformations
Bloom’s: Remember the Facts

6) Hunting and gathering bands normally consisted of groups of men, and women, and children
numbering ________.
A) between 20 twenty and forty430.
B) between thirty30 and fifty50.
C) between fifty50 and one hundred100.
D) between one hundred100 and five hundred500.
Answer: A
Difficulty: Moderate
A-head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
Bloom’s: Remember the Facts

7) Looking at Map 1.1, which of these areas was free of glaciers in the Old Stone Age?
A) Africa
B) Latin South America
C) Asia
D) Europe
Answer: A
Difficulty: Easy
A-Head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
Bloom’s: Remember the FactsAnalyze It

8) The Natufian complex developed in ________.
A) Africa.
B) Eeast Asia.
C) the Mmiddle East.
D) Europe.
Answer: C
Difficulty: Moderate
A-Head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
Bloom’s: Remember the Facts

9) Societies in which new families take up residence with a wife’s familydescent and
inheritance are traced through the female line are ________.
A) matriarchal.
B) mаtrilineal.
C) patrilineal.
D) matrilocal.
Answer: BD
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A-Head: Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers
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