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1Scholars call people who forage for food instead of producing it,__________________ or Paleolithic people
- Apastoralists
- Bbedouins
- Cgathering/hunting peoples
- Dcavemen
2Agriculture began about ______ years ago
- A12,000
- B5000
- C2000
- D10,000
3Humans first developed in __________
- AAsia
- BEurope
- CAustralia
- DAfrica
4About 100,000 years ago, human beings began to
- Ause fire
- Bmigrate from Africa
- Cexperiment with agriculture
- Dlive in caves
5Paleolithic carved female figurines, often with exaggerated breasts and hips, are known as ________
- AIshtar Idols
- BVenus figurines
- CAphrodite Idols
- DMother goddesses
6In the Australian Aboriginal concept of __________, everything in the present day is a vibration or echo of ancient happenings
- AGauwasi
- BTrance Dance
- CDreamtime
- DShamanism
7Members of the paleolithic _________ in North America spread widely across the continent perhaps in their pursuit of the large mammals that were a major source of their food
- AChumash culture
- BNeanderthal culture
- CAboriginal culture
- DClovis Culture
8Speakers of ________ languages began migrating to the Pacific Islands about 3500 years ago
- AAustronesian
- BIndo-European
- CBantu
- DMicronesian
9Paleolithic society in general consisted of bands of ________ people
- A5-10
- B50-100
- C25-50
- D50-75
10Occurring between 16,000 and 10,000 years ago, ________ was the most significant factor in changing Paleolithic life.
- Aextinction of dinosaurs
- Bthe end of the last ice age
- Cemigration from Africa
- Dthe beginning of the last great ice age
11The paleolithic societies in Japan, known as _______, settled in permanent seaside villages, where they invented some of the world's earliest pottery.
- AXia
- BChumash
- CFunan
- DJamon
12The San people lived in the fringe of the _________
- AKalahari Desert
- BSahara Desert
- CPacific Ocean
- DAmazon Basin
13Most of the Khoisan-speaking Paleolithic cultures of South Africa were absorbed or displaced by agricultural _________ speaking peoples
- AArabic
- BBantu
- CIndo European
- DBoer
14San society included a denigration of good hunting called ________, intended to keep successful hunters from boasting about their skills
- A"chewing the fat"
- B"taunting the meat"
- C"insulting the meat"
- D"heckling the hunter"
15The San believed tat the most serious threat to human welfare was the gauwasi, which means ____
- Athe creator God
- Bexcessive pride and arrogance
- Cvoodoo
- Dthe ghosts of dead ancestors
16The Chumash people established a sedentary Paleolithic society in what is now _______
- ASumatra
- BBaja California
- CSouthern California
- Dnone of these
17The ______ society was transformed by the creation of an ocean going canoe known as the tomol.
- AJomon
- BChumash
- CSan
- DAustronesian
18The first hominid species to use fire in a controlled fashion was _____
- Ahomo sapiens
- Bhomo habilis
- Chomo erectus
- DCro-Magnon Man
19The early human settlers in what are now southern France and northern Spain left a record of the world in the form of hundreds of ______
- Acave paintings
- BVenus figurines
- CSteles
- DStone Carving
20The dying out of many large animal species, known as ______, came about the of the Ice Age either because of climate change or because humans hunted them to extinction
- AThe great extinction
- Bmegafloral extinction
- Cmegafaunal extinction
- Dthe great warming
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