Question 1

What was the relationship between pastoral societies and agricultural village societies?

Accepted Answer

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Question 2

What is another name for the Agricultural Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fertile Crescent 
B)  Neolithic Revolution 
C)  "Secondary products revolution" 
D)  Mesoamerica

Question 3

Use the following to answer questions:
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-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.

Accepted Answer

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)Banp--
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 4

According to Source 1.2, which of the following statements reflects Platypus's response to the different animals' requests to join their respective groups?

Accepted Answer

A)  Platypus will join the group that will make him king. 
B)  Platypus will join the group that defeats the other groups. 
C)  Everyone has to belong to a particular community. 
D)  Everyone has a unique quality that makes her or him special.

Question 5

Use the following to answer questions:
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from a particular kind of projectile point.

Accepted Answer

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)Banp--
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 6

Personal Reflection: Would you prefer to live in a Paleolithic society, a pastoral society, an agricultural village society, or a chiefdom? Why?

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Question 7

What was the chronological sequence of human settlement of the planet?

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Question 8

Comparative Analysis: What did all Paleolithic peoples share in common, and what differences subdivided them?

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Question 9

How did the Agricultural Revolution affect the environment?

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Question 10

Which of the following describes both pastoral and agricultural village societies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Both were made up of mobile populations that moved frequently. 
B)  Both were made up of bands of twenty-five to fifty people. 
C)  Both possessed relatively egalitarian social structures with few social distinctions. 
D)  Both possessed permanent settlements near the sea.

Question 11

Which form of society during the Age of Agriculture is considered to have a distinct element of inequality?

Accepted Answer

A)  Paleolithic societies 
B)  Pastoral societies 
C)  Gathering and hunting societies 
D)  Chiefdoms

Question 12

Use the following to answer questions:
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings.

Accepted Answer

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)Banp--
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 13

Which of the following is used as evidence that the earliest humans first emerged in Africa?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cave paintings 
B)  Domestication of plants 
C)  Processing of ochre 
D)  Shrine-like buildings

Question 14

Which of the following was an important development during the Paleolithic period?

Accepted Answer

A)  Humankind created the first alphabet. 
B)  Humankind migrated to different parts of the world. 
C)  Humankind established the first civilizations. 
D)  Humankind developed ironworking technologies.

Question 15

What did migrants to Australia and the Pacific Islands use to get to their destinations?

Accepted Answer

A)  Clovis points 
B)  Mammoths 
C)  Land bridges 
D)  Boats

Question 16

Which of the following was the point of departure for migration to the Americas?

Accepted Answer

A)  New Guinea 
B)  Eastern Siberia 
C)  Aotearoa 
D)  Easter Island

Question 17

Use the following to answer questions:
Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-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.

Accepted Answer

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)Banp--
Q)"secondary products revolution"
R)pastoral societies
S)Çatalhüyük
T)chiefdoms

Question 18

What role did women play in agricultural village societies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women led important rituals and ceremonies. 
B)  Women rode horses and fought in battles. 
C)  Women participated in farming and textile work. 
D)  Women organized irrigation systems and controlled trade.

Question 19

According to Source 1.1, which of the following describes the role of Yhi and Baiame in the creation of the world?

Accepted Answer

A)  Yhi instructed Baime to awaken the world with his light. 
B)  Baime instructed Yhi to awaken the world with her light. 
C)  Yhi resurrected the world after Baime destroyed it. 
D)  Baime resurrected the world after Yhi destroyed it.

Question 20

According to the Purukapali myth in Source 1.4, which of the following precipitated the introduction of death into human life?

Accepted Answer

A)  Theft 
B)  Greed 
C)  Adultery 
D)  Gluttony

Exam 1: First Peoples: Populating the Planet, to 10,000 Bce

What was the relationship between pastoral societies and agricultural village societies?

What is another name for the Agricultural Revolution?

According to Source 1.2, which of the following statements reflects Platypus's response to the different animals' requests to join their respective groups?

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from a particular kind of projectile point.

Personal Reflection: Would you prefer to live in a Paleolithic society, a pastoral society, an agricultural village society, or a chiefdom? Why?

What was the chronological sequence of human settlement of the planet?

Comparative Analysis: What did all Paleolithic peoples share in common, and what differences subdivided them?

How did the Agricultural Revolution affect the environment?

Which of the following describes both pastoral and agricultural village societies?

Which form of society during the Age of Agriculture is considered to have a distinct element of inequality?

Which of the following is used as evidence that the earliest humans first emerged in Africa?

Which of the following was an important development during the Paleolithic period?

What did migrants to Australia and the Pacific Islands use to get to their destinations?

Which of the following was the point of departure for migration to the Americas?

What role did women play in agricultural village societies?

According to Source 1.1, which of the following describes the role of Yhi and Baiame in the creation of the world?

According to the Purukapali myth in Source 1.4, which of the following precipitated the introduction of death into human life?