1TTO, Topweek 1: Lesson 1.1 - 1.6

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HISTORY

TEST (version A)

AGE 1 

Lesson 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6

1. Dictionary (E-NL) is allowed. NO google translate.
2. You may use a calculator.
3. Besides a dictionary, calculator and chromebook, your desk is empty:  no notebook, no notes and.....no phone!
4. Only 1 tab is opened during the test. Use FULL SCREEN.
5. Finished? Hand in your work and CLOSE your chromebook.

read the rules before you start

Good Luck!

This test has: 

20 mc questions, 11 drag&drop questions, 6 open questions

You can earn 76 points to get a "10"

1.1 The First Humans

According to the Out of Africa theory:

1. modern man migrated within Africa from south to north
2. mankind forms one human race
3. Europe populated Africa and Asia
4. only the northern species left the continent because of the Sahara Desert

The scientists who studied Lucy's remains concluded that Lucy was in fact a human.
Which discovery led to this conclusion?

1. Lucy used tools to hunt
2. Lucy walked on two legs
3. Lucy wore primitive clothes
4. Lucy was able to spreak

What is the main difference between an archeologist and a paleontologist?

a. Who developed the 'Theory of Evolution'?
b. And what does it explain about how species survive over a long period of time?
Use the terms "change" and ''adapt'' in your answer.
(start your answers with "a:" and "b:")

Adam & Eve

Lucy

Drag the characteristics to the correct box

science

no physical evidence

creation narrative

belief

physical evidence

religion

forbidden tree

evolution theory

facts

Hadar

age determined

age not 

established

1.2 Hunter-Gatherers

Which statement about cave paintings is correct?

1. Cave paintings are written sources from prehistory
2. Cave paintings show that hunter-gathers lived in caves
3. Cave paintings are found by nomads
4. Cave paintings show scenes from prehistory

Look at the source. Why are these paintings an
important source to understand what prehistoric
people were thinking?

Source 1: Cave paintings from Lascaux, France

1. Because in prehistory people did not write things down.
2. Because these paintings are the only remains scientists found from prehistory.
3. Because they teach us something about hunting techniques of the hunter-gatherers.
4. Because these paintings clearly show how advanced prehistoric man was.

Read the source.
What can you conclude from the source?

Source: Scientific research: Ötzis voice

Free translation of: Nu.nl, march 10th 2016

1. Ötzi spoke a language we still speak today
2. Soon we shall be able to hear an exact replica of Ötzi's voice.
3. Ötzi's voice isn't a reliable source for historians.
4. Ötzi's vocal chords can be used to make the mummy talk again.

Why did hunter-gatherers have only few possessions?

1. because they did not have the skills to make more tools
2. because they did not need many possessions
3. because they had to carry everything when they travelled
4. because other groups would steal their possessions when they travelled

Look at the source.
Why did hunter-gatherers not have these objects?

pottery

1. Hunter-gatherers moved around a lot, so pottery would be too heavy to carry around.
2. Hunter-gatherers did not have fire yet, so they could not make pottery.
3. Gatherers needed pottery to store grain, while farmers did not have to store food.
4. Hunter-gatherers only used what they could find in nature and did not make anything.

Read the source.
Which cause is given for the
start of agriculture?

1. because of climate change
2. because people were forced to grow their own crops
3. because people stopped moving around
4. because fewer wild grains grew in the wild

1.3 Early Farmers

Farming started in the Middle East because:

1. the area was flooded by rivers every year
2. there were large rivers
3. the first farmers lived there
4. hunter-gatherers collected most of their food there

What was the main reason for farmers to tame animals?

1. To use them for their own benefit
2. To protect them from predators
3. To study their behavior
4. To sell them for profit

What were farmers looking for when selecting animals for breeding?

1. Fast speed
2. Colorful fur
3. Useful characteristics
4. Large size

Where can we find the Funnel Beaker Culture?

1. above the rivers Maas and Rhine
2. in Greece
3. in Mesopotamia
4. in the Alps region

What was pottery used for?

1. Building houses
2. Storing grain and seeds
3. Transporting water
4. Cooking food

What is an example of new knowledge spread by farmers?

1. Pottery
2. Carpentry
3. Metalworking
4. Weaving

Farmers

Hunter-Gatherers

moving from place to place

finding grain, fruit and vegetables

hunting animals and fishing

small groups

only few possessions that can be carried

Farming was a big change in the way prehistoric man lived. So what changed exactly?

Drag each change  to the correct place in the table.

large groups

pottery

domesticating animals

growing your own crops

living in one place

(= settling)

Cause

Effect

1. Farming was invented in the Fertile Crescent

2. Farmers could not follow the animals that they hunted

3. Farmers wanted to store grain and seeds

4. Farming spread to new regions

Drag the correct effect (gevolg)  to the cause (oorzaak) that has been given.

Pottery is invented

Farming villages developed in Europe

People started living in a fixed place

People started domesticating animals

1.4 Time Matters

Study the timeline below closely. The center is the year 1 AD. Drag the dates to the correct centuries (box 1 - 7). Three dates remain.

ps: box 1 = 3rd century BC, box 7 = 4th century AD.

256 AD

317 BC

317

67 AD

289 BC

410 

44 BC 

183 BC

410 AD

192 AD

29

111 BC

1409 BC

30 BC

1507 BC

36 BC

29 BC

67

40

74

68

57

3rd

1st AD

1st BC

14th BC

15th BC

2nd BC

No human can live for 300 years.
But some people have lived in 3 centuries.
Can you explain this? Give an example.

1.5 The First Civilisation

Which of the following does
NOT
belong to the five aspects of a civilisation?

language, writing, agriculture, law, art, religion

1. religion
2. writing
3. agriculture
4. art

Why did not everyone have to be a farmer in Mesopotamia?

1. People found out they were better at other jobs, such as making tools.
2. People didn’t like farming and chose other jobs.
3. The fertile land produced a lot of food, allowing some people to specialize in other jobs, such as potters.
4. The floods would ruin the harvest, so people had to other jobs in order to survive

Look at the image.
How does the image illustrate irrigation?
Start your answer by explaining the term "irrigation".

4. Drag the texts to the correct pictures.

Because of heavy rainfall, the water level in the river rises. This causes it to overflow and cover the land.

When the water level drops, the river leaves silt. The farmers use this to make their land fertile. They store some of the water in pools.

The river is at a low point.

There is not enough fertile soil for crops to grow.

People die of famine

People  drown

Finish the cause and effect timetable. 

! pay attention to the arrows

Destroys fields and houses

Crops fail because of a drought

Water level is too low

Water level is too high

only in Sumer

only in Egypt

in both

Drag the texts to the correct boxes

pharaoh

highly developed civilisation

 ruled by a king

Euphrates and Tigris

every city had a king

arose around river(s)

1.6 Inventing Writing

Which of the following sources is an existing, primary source?

1. One of Ötzi's axes
2. An image of Ötzi found on the Exploring Time website
3. A letter written by Ötzi
4. A story about Ötzi told by your teacher

Look at the source and read the caption in the hotspot.
Is this is a primary or a secondary source?
Explain your choice.

reconstruction of Ötzi

source A

Photo, made in 1887, of the construction of the Eifel Tower,  Paris

source B

Reconstruction drawing of Ruthin Castle from the south-west as it may have appeared in the late medieval period. 

source C

front page Algemeen Handelsblad, May 10th, 1940.

source D

Book about the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940. Author: John Pregner. Published in 1978.

Drag the images to the correct box. You can click the image to enlarge. The green hotspot gives extra information.

Primary + written

Primary + non-written

Secondary + written

Secondary + non-written

Extra's

The following three questions are about this source

! A cause happens first, an effect happens after (cause-effect)

Open the text on the right.
The seven sentences (A-G) are in random order.

Choose the correct answer.

1. statement G is a cause of statement E
2. statement G is an effect of statement E

! A cause happens first, an effect happens after (cause-effect)

Open the text on the right.
The seven sentences (A-G) are in random order.

Choose the correct answer.

1. statement A is a cause of statement E
2. statement A is an effect of statement E

! A cause happens first, an effect happens after (cause-effect)

Open the text on the right.
The seven sentences (A-G) are in random order.

Choose the correct answer.

1. statement E is a cause of statement C
2. statement E is an effect of statement C

Nothing to see here. Move on....

Timeline

Chronology question. Put the events in the correct order on the timeline.

around 8,000 years ago

around 250,000 years ago

around 15,000 years ago

around 12,000 years ago

around 7,300 years ago

around 4500 years ago

cave paintings Lascaux are made

beginning of agriculture in the Netherlands

beginning of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent

domestication of sheep and goats

Stonehenge is built

Beginning Out of Africa migration

Sources

Key words. Each of the 17 hotspot (paperclip) contains the definition of a key word. 

Drag 16 hotspot to the orange box under the keyword it describes. So 1 hotspot remains.

Civil Servant

Specialise

Iron age

Domestication

Fossils

Periods

Markets

Nomads

Millenium

Papyrus

Scribe

Tool

Culture

Pottery

Antiquity

remains from the past

remains of plants or animals that are preserved in stone

people who do not live in a fixed place

someone who works for the government

an object held in one hand to accomplish a task (for example: an axe)

tablet which was used to decipher Egyptian writing

plant, the stems of which were used to write on

tame animals for your own use

time period in history during which people invented writing and the first civilisations arose

an invention of farmers to store products

a period of a thousand years

a way of organising history into smaller timeframes

someone who writes as his job

things people think and do, such as religion, traditions, art, clothes and language

places where people come to barter their products

when someone becomes very good at one thing

the time when prehistoric man learned how to make objects of iron

congratulations