1. Ötzi’s survival suggests the existence in Europe of
a. Europe as a political and cultural entity.
b. migrants moving into Europe from Asia.
c. organized life.
d. iron-age technology.
Answer: c
Page: 5
2. Prehistory is normally thought of as that period before the invention of
a. art.
b. war.
c. agriculture.
d. writing.
Answer: d
Page: 6
3. The Neolithic period connotes the move to what kind of society?
a. hunter-gatherer
b. agricultural
c. urban
d. migrant
Answer: b
Page: 7
4. About what percentage of all human existence occurred during prehistoric times?
a. 52.5 percent
b. 67.5 percent
c. 85.5 percent
d. 97.5 percent
Answer: d
Page: 6
,5. In the last 12,000 years the human population has exploded from 1 to 5 million humans in
10,000 BCE to how many people as of 2011?
a. 7 billion
b. 6 billion
c. 5 billion
d. 4 billion
Answer: a
Page: 6
6. Where did our species, homo sapiens sapiens, reach its basic form?
a. Asia
b. Europe
c. Australia
d. Africa
Answer: d
Page: 6
7. The common matrilineal ancestor of all living humans, the so-called Mitochondrial Eve,
lived in Africa
a. 17,000 years ago.
b. 170,000 years ago.
c. 7,000 years ago.
d. 7 million years ago.
Answer: b
Page: 6
8. European hunter-gatherers of the period from about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago began to
produce
a. written texts.
b. metal weapons.
c. stone temples.
d. objects with symbolic meaning.
Answer: d
Page: 7
9. The achievements of human beings over the last 20,000 years can best be attributed to
a. bigger brains and better brain wiring.
b. interbreeding between homo sapiens sapiens and homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
c. shared and cumulative cultural advances.
d. the domestication of animals and plants.
Answer: c
Page: 7
, 10. The first domesticated animal was the
a. dog.
b. horse.
c. chicken.
d. pig.
Answer: a
Page: 8
11. By what date had most of the animals upon which humans depend been domesticated?
a. 250,000 BCE
b. 25,000 BCE
c. 2500 BCE
d. 250 BCE
Answer: c
Page: 9
12. Which of the following most likely preceded the development of agriculture?
a. the ability to smelt metals
b. settled life
c. writing
d. wheeled vehicles
Answer: b
Page: 9
13. How did the diet of settled peoples most likely differ from that of their hunter-gatherer
predecessors?
a. more abundant and nutritious
b. more dependent on meat and animal products
c. less varied and perhaps less healthy
d. more varied and most likely healthier
Answer: c
Page: 9
14. Neolithic farmers in the Near East devoted themselves chiefly to the cultivation of what kind
of crops?
a. vegetables
b. fruits
c. grains
d. sheep and goats
Answer: c
Page: 9
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