Deck 1: Civilization Before Civilization 2,000,000-3000 BCE

Question 1

Geographically speaking, when we speak of ancient "western" civilization, we are speaking of the cultures of which peoples?

A)Those in the northern hemisphere
B)in the area of the Mediterranean Sea
C)Those peoples who originated in alluvial plains
D)Those who migrated westward in the Pleistocene Epoch

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What are the two primary categories of historical evidence?

A)Written evidence
B)Forensic
C)Visual culture
D)Material culture

Answer 2

A,D

Question 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.

A)culture
B)determinant
C)horizon
D)chronology

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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

A)Homo sapiens
B)Homo erectus
C)Homo habilis
D)Homo rudis

Question 5

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

A)Acheulean hand axe
B)Gordian hand flint
C)Chipped bronze scraper
D)Obsidian hand knife

Question 6

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

A)Cro Magnon
B)Denisovan
C)Periogordian
D)Sumerian

Question 7

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

A)Industrial
B)Hunting and gathering
C)Pastoralism
D)Tribalist

Question 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

Question 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 _______.

A)Great Glacial Retreat
B)Event Horizon
C)Megalithic Extermination Horizon
D)Holocene Extinction Event

Question 10

What are the dates of the Neolithic Age?

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

Question 11

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

A)The Egyptians
B)The Vinča Culture
C)The Natufians
D)The Bell-Beaker Culture

Question 12

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

A)Carnac
B)Tuz Gölü
C)Babylon
D)Çatal Hüyük

Question 13

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

A)Cemetery 117
B)Shaft Grave A
C)The Alexandrian Tumulus
D)The Sphinx's Paw

Question 14

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

A)bones
B)arrowheads
C)pottery pieces and sherds
D)animal and plant fibers

Question 15

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

A)The Iron Age
B)The Palaeolithic Period
C)The Mesolithic Period
D)The Chalcolithic Period

Question 16

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

A)kurgans
B)Vinča signs
C)dolmens
D)spondylus etchings

Question 17

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

A)Corded-Ware Culture
B)Bell-Beaker Culture
C)Baden Culture
D)Venus Disc Culture

Question 18

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

A)Fortifications in warfare
B)To mark the agricultural calendar
C)As burial sites
D)Astronomical alignments

Question 19

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

A)Anatolia
B)Greater Jordan
C)the Levant
D)Brittany

Question 20

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

A)The Chalcolithic
B)The Mesozoic
C)The Mesolithic
D)The Upper Palaeolithic