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A History of World Societies: Chapter 1
Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
Hominid - answer✔✔Family that humans were placed in because they shared many features
with great apes
Stone Age - answer✔✔Earliest human era
Paleolithic era - answer✔✔Time period when people used stone, bone, and other natural
products to make tools and gain food by foraging
Foraging - answer✔✔Gathering of plant products, trapping or catching small animals or birds,
and hunting larger prey
Neolithic era - answer✔✔Time period that saw the beginning of agricultural and animal
domestication
New Stone Age - answer✔✔Another name for the Neolithic era
Holocene epoch - answer✔✔The last twelve thousand years
Pleistocene - answer✔✔Time period that began about 2.5 million years ago
What was the Pleistocene marked by? - answer✔✔Repeated advances in glaciers and continental
ice sheets
When did a group of humans in East Africa begin to walk upright? - answer✔✔Between 6 and 7
million years ago
Ardipithecus - answer✔✔Genus that indicates a combination of two-limbed movement on land
and four-limbed movement in trees
Australopithecus - answer✔✔Earliest fully bipedal hominids
When did a group of Australopithecines begin to use simple tools? - answer✔✔2.5 million years
ago
What is the meaning of Homo habilis - answer✔✔handy human
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Homo habilis - answer✔✔Group that made sharpened stone pieces, and used them for various
tasks
Home erectus - answer✔✔Species in East Africa that made slightly specialized tools, lived in
large groups, engaged in social gatherings
Migration to Northern Africa - answer✔✔One activity that Homo erectus carried out most
successfully
Place that Homo erectus reached at least 800,000 years ago - answer✔✔spain
Germany - answer✔✔Place that Homo erectus reached by 500,000 years ago
Places that Homo erectus lived in included... - answer✔✔Open, caves, and simple shelters
Place that Homo erectus reached as early as 1.8 million years ago - answer✔✔Asia
What is the meaning of Homo sapiens? - answer✔✔thinking human
Main trait of Homo sapiens - answer✔✔larger brain
What were individuals who had better social skills more likely to do? - answer✔✔mate
What did Homo sapiens' brains invent? - answer✔✔highly specialized tools
Which species' tools did Homo sapiens improve? - answer✔✔homo erectus
By 25,000 years ago, what were some humans capable of doing? - answer✔✔weaving
By 17,000 years ago, what were some humans using to hunt? - answer✔✔Bows and atlatls
Atlatls - answer✔✔Notched throwing sticks made of bone, wood, or antler
When did Homo sapiens begin to move to Eurasia? - answer✔✔120,000 years ago
What modern humans are called - answer✔✔Homo sapiens sapiens
Which species did Homo sapiens sapiens replace? - answer✔✔homo erectus
Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons - answer✔✔Best-known example of interaction between Homo
erectus and Homo sapiens sapiens
Cro-Magnons - answer✔✔A group of anatomically modern humans
Where did Neanderthals live about 150,000 years ago? - answer✔✔europe and western asia
Red ochre - answer✔✔A form of colored clay
When did Cro-Magnons move to parts of Western Asia? - answer✔✔70,000 years ago
A History of World Societies: Chapter 1
Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
Hominid - answer✔✔Family that humans were placed in because they shared many features
with great apes
Stone Age - answer✔✔Earliest human era
Paleolithic era - answer✔✔Time period when people used stone, bone, and other natural
products to make tools and gain food by foraging
Foraging - answer✔✔Gathering of plant products, trapping or catching small animals or birds,
and hunting larger prey
Neolithic era - answer✔✔Time period that saw the beginning of agricultural and animal
domestication
New Stone Age - answer✔✔Another name for the Neolithic era
Holocene epoch - answer✔✔The last twelve thousand years
Pleistocene - answer✔✔Time period that began about 2.5 million years ago
What was the Pleistocene marked by? - answer✔✔Repeated advances in glaciers and continental
ice sheets
When did a group of humans in East Africa begin to walk upright? - answer✔✔Between 6 and 7
million years ago
Ardipithecus - answer✔✔Genus that indicates a combination of two-limbed movement on land
and four-limbed movement in trees
Australopithecus - answer✔✔Earliest fully bipedal hominids
When did a group of Australopithecines begin to use simple tools? - answer✔✔2.5 million years
ago
What is the meaning of Homo habilis - answer✔✔handy human
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Homo habilis - answer✔✔Group that made sharpened stone pieces, and used them for various
tasks
Home erectus - answer✔✔Species in East Africa that made slightly specialized tools, lived in
large groups, engaged in social gatherings
Migration to Northern Africa - answer✔✔One activity that Homo erectus carried out most
successfully
Place that Homo erectus reached at least 800,000 years ago - answer✔✔spain
Germany - answer✔✔Place that Homo erectus reached by 500,000 years ago
Places that Homo erectus lived in included... - answer✔✔Open, caves, and simple shelters
Place that Homo erectus reached as early as 1.8 million years ago - answer✔✔Asia
What is the meaning of Homo sapiens? - answer✔✔thinking human
Main trait of Homo sapiens - answer✔✔larger brain
What were individuals who had better social skills more likely to do? - answer✔✔mate
What did Homo sapiens' brains invent? - answer✔✔highly specialized tools
Which species' tools did Homo sapiens improve? - answer✔✔homo erectus
By 25,000 years ago, what were some humans capable of doing? - answer✔✔weaving
By 17,000 years ago, what were some humans using to hunt? - answer✔✔Bows and atlatls
Atlatls - answer✔✔Notched throwing sticks made of bone, wood, or antler
When did Homo sapiens begin to move to Eurasia? - answer✔✔120,000 years ago
What modern humans are called - answer✔✔Homo sapiens sapiens
Which species did Homo sapiens sapiens replace? - answer✔✔homo erectus
Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons - answer✔✔Best-known example of interaction between Homo
erectus and Homo sapiens sapiens
Cro-Magnons - answer✔✔A group of anatomically modern humans
Where did Neanderthals live about 150,000 years ago? - answer✔✔europe and western asia
Red ochre - answer✔✔A form of colored clay
When did Cro-Magnons move to parts of Western Asia? - answer✔✔70,000 years ago
