Exam Questions Civilization Before Civilization Chapter.1

CHAPTER 1 CIVILIZATION BEFORE CIVILIZATION

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1. Geographically speaking, when we speak of ancient “western” civilization, we are speaking of the cultures of which peoples?

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a. Those in the northern hemisphere

b. Those who live in the area of the Mediterranean Sea

c. Those peoples who originated in alluvial plains

d. Those who migrated westward in the Pleistocene Epoch

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2. What are the two primary categories of historical evidence?

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a. Written evidence

b. Forensic

c. Visual culture

d. Material culture

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3. An archaeological “_______” is a group of features relating to technology, decorative style, settlement type, economic basis, and ritual symbols that characterize particular populations bounded by space and time.

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a. culture

b. determinant

c. horizon

d. chronology

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4. Which of the following is not an ancestor of fully modern humans?

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a. Homo sapiens

b. Homo erectus

c. Homo habilis

d. Homo rudis

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5. The most important hand tool used by humans for the majority of the human past was the ______.

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a. Acheulean hand axe

b. Gordian hand flint

c. Chipped bronze scraper

d. Obsidian hand knife

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

6. Based on DNA analysis, Neanderthals were bred out of existence and absorbed into which much larger population?

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a. Cro Magnon

b. Denisovan

c. Periogordian

d. Sumerian

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

7. Initially, all human societies made use of what kind of economy?

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a. Industrial

b. Hunting and gathering

c. Pastoralism

d. Tribalist

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

8. Elaborate Palaeolithic statuettes depicting women with grossly exaggerated hips and breasts are known as _______.

a. Shield maidens

b. Sky mothers

c. Venuses

d. Shamans

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

9. The extinction, begun during the Pleistocene Epoch, of large numbers of plants and animals, including such large mammals as the wooly mammoth and the cave bear in Europe, is known as the _______.

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a. Great Glacial Retreat

b. Event Horizon

c. Megalithic Extermination Horizon

d. Holocene Extinction Event

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 10

10. What are the dates of the Neolithic Age?

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a. Circa 30,000 to 10,000 BCE

b. Circa 8000 to 3000 BCE

c. Circa 180,000 to 25,000 BCE

d. Circa 2,000,000 to 10,000 BCE

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 11

11. Which of the following is one of the earliest hunter-gathering peoples known to have cultivated grain?

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a. The Egyptians

b. The Vinča Culture

c. The Natufians

d. The Bell-Beaker Culture

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 12

12. The Neolithic village of ______, on a thirty-acre site in southern Anatolia, was one of the first villages to show evidence of fortification.

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a. Carnac

b. Tuz Gölü

c. Babylon

d. Çatal Hüyük

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 13

13. The first clear evidence of warfare comes from an Egyptian site known by what name?

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a. Cemetery 117

b. Shaft Grave A

c. The Alexandrian Tumulus

d. The Sphinx’s Paw

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 14

14. The most ubiquitous (because they’re virtually indestructible) artifacts found at archaeological sites are ______.

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a. bones

b. arrowheads

c. pottery pieces and sherds

d. animal and plant fibers

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 15

15. The Linear Pottery Culture and the Vinča Culture belong to which historical period?

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a. The Iron Age

b. The Palaeolithic Period

c. The Mesolithic Period

d. The Chalcolithic Period

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 16

16. Some scholars believe that _______ are a form of proto-writing.

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a. kurgans

b. Vinča signs

c. dolmens

d. spondylus etchings

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 17

17. Which of the following is not the name of a southern, western, or northern European culture between 4500 to 2000 BCE?

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a. Corded-Ware Culture

b. Bell-Beaker Culture

c. Baden Culture

d. Venus Disc Culture

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 18

18. Which of the following, according to scholars, were among the purposes of megalithic constructions?

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a. Fortifications in warfare

b. To mark the agricultural calendar

c. As burial sites

d. Astronomical alignments

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 19

19. The area enclosed by the dotted line is commonly referred to as _______.

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a. Anatolia

b. Greater Jordan

c. the Levant

d. Brittany

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 20

20. The copper axe reconstructed here would, historically, have been manufactured in which of the following periods?

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a. The Chalcolithic

b. The Mesozoic

c. The Mesolithic

d. The Upper Palaeolithic