Deck 1: D: First Peoples; First Farmers Most of History in a Single Chapter to 4000 B.C.E

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Term coined by the scholar Marshall Sahlins in 1972 to describe Paleolithic societies,which he regarded as affluent not because they had so much but because they wanted or needed so little.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Answer 1

"the original affluent society"

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Human societies that rely on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food;nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a single location.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Answer 2

pastoral societies

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The last surviving member of a gathering and hunting group known as the Yahi who lived in northern California.His people were driven into extinction during the second half of the nineteenth century by the intrusion of farming and herding "civilized" societies.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Answer 3

Ishi

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth.These people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Region sometimes known as Southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq,Syria,Israel/Palestine,and southern Turkey;the earliest home of agriculture.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A Chinese archeological site where the remains of a significant Neolithic village have been found.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
An important Neolithic site in what is now Turkey.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
In many early societies,a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans and supernatural forces,often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America;named from a particular kind of projectile point.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Dying out of a number of large animal species,including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels,that occurred around 11,000 to 10,000 years ago,at the end of the Ice Age.The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
In San culture,a nightlong ritual held to activate a human being's inner spiritual potency to counteract the evil influences of gods and ancestors.The practice was apparently common to the Khoisan people,of whom the Ju/'hoansi are a surviving remnant.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The spread of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria or Cameroon to most of Africa,in a process that started about 3000 B.C.E.and continued for several millennia.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Societal groupings governed by a chief who typically relies on generosity,ritual status,or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The wild ancestor of maize.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The gradual spread of agricultural techniques without extensive population movement.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 17

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age.Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods as well as growing inequalities in society.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 18

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A term used to describe the series of technological changes that began about 4000 B.C.E. ,as people began to develop new uses for their domesticated animals,exploiting a revolutionary new source of power.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 19

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A ceremonial site comprising 20 circles made up of carved limestone pillars located in southeastern Turkey.The site,which dates to 11,600 years ago,was built by gathering and hunting peoples who lived at least part of the year in settled villages.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 20

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Paleolithic carvings of the female form,often with exaggerated breasts,buttocks,hips,and stomach,which may have had religious significance.

A)Venus figurines
B)Dreamtime
C)Clovis culture
D)megafaunal extinction
E)Austronesian migrations
F)"the original affluent society"
G)shamans
H)trance dance
I)Paleolithic settling down
J)Göbekli Tepe
K)Fertile Crescent
L)teosinte
M)diffusion
N)Bantu migration
O)Ishi
P)Banpo
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms