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Darwin wrote about the survival of the fittest.
This means that

1. to survive, a species has to be able to adapt
2. only the strongest species survive
3. only animals and mankind survived the ice age
4. the environment has no influence on evolution

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
man thought?

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.

This Age ended around

1. 3000 BC
2. 5000 BC
3. 500 AD
4. 3000 years ago

This Age is also known as

1. antiquity
2. prehistory
3. middle ages
4. modern age

Study the map

Notice the numbers 1,2,3 in the map.

Drag the texts (A,B,C) to the numbers (1,2,3) at the bottom right.

Nr 1 in the map:

Nr 2 in the map:

Nr 3 in the map:

A: This is where Homo sapiens evolved.

B: This is the Fertile Crescent, where people discovered farming.

C: Agriculture had spread from the Middle East to our region.

Hunter-gatherer society had certain characteristics. Which characteristic does not belong to hunter-gatherer society?

1. They stayed in one place.
2. They did not have many possessions.
3. 20-50 people per group.
4. They slept in caves, tents or huts.

A source:

1. is always a text from the past
2. is never a written text
3. can be written as well as unwritten
4. is only found by archaeologists

Which statement is true?

1. A decade is a thousand years
2. AD is the same as BCE
3. A millennium is a million years
4. AD is the same as CE

What is the best description of Prehistory?

1. the time of which we have no written records
2. All the time BC
3. the time from the dinosaurs until Lucy
4. the time in which people lived as hunter-gatherers

Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Which century was that?

1. 18th
2. 19th
3. 17th
4. 1800th

Which year belongs to the fifteenth century?

1. 1492
2. 1576
3. 1430 BC
4. 1688 AD

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.
Which answer fits this source best?

1. The life of hunter-gatherers
2. The invention of agriculture
3. The rise of the first villages and cities
4. all answers fit the picture

Alexander the Great was born in 356 BC

When Alexander was 1 year old. What year was it?

1. 355 BC
2. 357 BC
3. 355
4. 357

What is oldest date?

1. 201 BC
2. 389 BC

Which century is the longest time ago?

1. 17th century BC
2. 20th century BC

For people who lived BC
the NUMBER of their birth year is larger
than their year of death

1. correct
2. not correct

The first farmers discovered how to grow their own plants. This is called 

They started to live near the fields where their crops were growing, so small                                                 began forming.

Besides growing their own food they still                                                      wild animals.

It took mankind                                                          of years to turn from hunter-gatherers into farmers. 

Finish each sentence. Choose one of the two words with each sentence.

agriculture

domestication

cities

villages

hunted

fought

hundreds

thousands

science

religion

3. Drag the key words to the correct column: Religion or Science.

fossils

Darwin

paradise

Adam and Eve

creation narrative

evolution

10. Where did farming begin?

1. Northern Europe
2. Middle East
3. Central Africa
4. Asia

11. Which of these animals is the best example of a domesticated animal?

1. bear
2. rhinoceros
3. dog
4. eagle

12. What is a creation narrative?

It is a story that says....

1. humans were created by scientists
2. God was created by humans
3. God was created by scientists
4. humans were created by God

Periods

excavation

Bronze Age

nomads

AD

Fertile crescent