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Neolithic Revolution Test 20-21
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Question 1
1.
What change began the Neolithic Age, about 8000 B.C.?
A. trading
B. hunting
C. farming
D. building
Question 2
2.
What was the greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to raise plants and animals?
A. They kept pets for company.
B. They could travel more easily.
C. They shared most of the work.
D. They had a stable food supply.
Question 3
3.
How did people in the Paleolithic Age get their food?
A. by hunting and gathering.
B. by planting and harvesting.
C. by herding goats and cattle.
D. by trading over land and sea.
Question 4
4.
Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of many early settlements?
A. The hills were rich in gold.
B. The soil was good for crops.
C. The forest was full of animals.
D. The caves were deep and warm.
Question 5
5.
Why did people in the Neolithic Age live together in larger groups, compared with earlier times?
A. They were nomads who moved faster in larger groups.
B. They made special goods like baskets and pottery.
C. They needed more people for hunting and gathering.
D. They could grow enough food to support more people.
Question 6
6.
How did dividing up the work help communities produce more to meet their needs?
A. Everybody did the same job.
B. Most people enjoyed working alone.
C. Villagers learned to make stone tools.
D. Individuals developed a variety of skills.
Question 7
7.
Why did Neolithic people trade?
A. to learn other languages.
B. to ride across the deserts.
C. to get resources they lacked.
D. to show off their good crafts.
Question 8
8.
If you were a Neolithic trader, what would most likely happen as you traveled and traded?
A. You would find out how other groups lived.
B. You would invent an alphabet and start writing.
C. You would become a better hunter by following animals.
D. You would spend more time making cave art.
Question 9
9.
Define domesticate:
A. to learn how to grow corn.
B. to train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
C. to learn how to speak.
D. to learn how to build communities.
Question 10
10.
Define Nomad:
A. one who moves from place to place.
B. one who is settled in one place.
C. one who farms the land.
D. one who makes tools.
Question 11
11.
Why were communities small during the Paleolithic times?
A. People often died from disease.
B. People did not accept outsiders into their tribes.
C. They had to travel from place to place.
D. Wild animals ate and killed most of the population.
Question 12
12.
Why did ancient farmers build levees?
To control flooding and use as an irrigation system.
To collect silt.
To provide water for livestock and other animals.
Question 13
13.
Why did ancient farmers rely on flooding?
To get enough water from the shallow streams.
To kill off thier crops at the end of growing season.
To get the fertilizing silt for their fields.
Question 14
14.
How did the development of agriculture change human life? Be sure to give examples from both the Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic Era.
Be sure to include:
How food was acquired.
What kind of work people did.
Where people lived.
Be sure to answer with examples and at least five (5) complete sentences.