2020 history TEST CH 1 (TV)

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• Middelbare school
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TEST

Ch 1

50 minutes.

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

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

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 is the Time of

1. Hunters & Gatherers
2. Monks & Farmers
3. Hunters & Reformers
4. Hunters & Farmers

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

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

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

Which of the following is NOT a correct
Typical Aspect of this Age?

1. life of hunter-gatherers
2. the rise of the first cities
3. the rise of specialisation
4. the first farmers

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

Write down two examples of written sources and two examples of unwritten sources. The sources do not have to be from the age of hunters and farmers.

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.

This article shows us that we do not know
everything about prehistory. New information about prehistory in
New Guinea is written in this article.
Write down the sentence in which this new information is written.

Write down ONLY the FIRST and the LAST word of the sentence!!!!!

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

Which of the following statements is true?

1. Mesopotamia is the Sumerian word for ‘land between two rivers.’
2. Mesopotamia is the Greek word for ‘land between two rivers.’
3. Mesopotamia is the Sumerian word for ‘powerful kingdom.’
4. Mesopotamia is the Greek word for ‘powerful kingdom.’

Study the timeline below closely. The center is the year 1 AD. Drag the dates to the correct centuries. Three dates remain.

83

217 BC

54 BC

318 BC

2020 BC

229 AD

318

183 AD

101 BC

2020

If someone is 'specialised' it means
that he...

1. is skilled in one special job
2. is skilled in many different jobs
3. is not skilled in any special job
4. has special powers, like Spiderman

The 8th century was from 700 until 799

1. correct
2. not correct

Which of these years belongs to the 6th century?

1. 452
2. 690
3. 600
4. 517

Clovis died in 511
Which century was this?

1. 500th
2. 60th
3. 5th
4. 6th

Which statement is true?
Statement I: During the Iconoclastic Fury, Catholics destroyed Protestant churches.
Statement II: The Iconoclastic Fury was caused by conflicting religious ideas only.

1. Both statements are true
2. Both statements are false
3. Statement I is false and statement II is true
4. Statement I is true and statement II is false

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

King Khufu became pharaoh of Egypt in 2604 BC
He ruled Egypt until his death 2581 BC

In which century did Khufu die?

1. 25th century
2. 26th century
3. 25th century BC
4. 26th century BC

Put the events in the correct chronological order.

Drag the oldest event to the top

writing is invented

Homo sapiens start to spread all over the world.

Ancient human footprints are made in Africa.

Beginning of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent.

‘Lucy’ lives in Ethiopia.

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