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| 4902874591 | Name two major paleolithic migrations. | -Early Africans to Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia -Asians across the land bridge to the Americas | 0 | |
| 4902888359 | Shifting cultivation is often referred to as the what of agriculture? | "Slash and burn" | 1 | |
| 4902894205 | Where did shifting cultivation primarily develop? | In the rain forests of Central and South America, West Africa, eastern and central Asia, and much of southern China and southeast Asia | 2 | |
| 4902906274 | Pangaea was hypothesized by who? | Alfred Wegener | 3 | |
| 4902910743 | Pangaea broke apart and formed what two things? | Continents and oceans | 4 | |
| 4902917761 | How many parts did Pangaea consist of? What were the names of these two parts? | 2; Northern Laurasia and southern Gondwana | 5 | |
| 4902931485 | What is Panthalassa? | A vast, global ancient Pacific Ocean that surrounded Pangaea | 6 | |
| 4902949707 | What is Beringia? | It used to be a land bridge connecting Russia and Canada | 7 | |
| 4902962714 | What is Pleistocene Epoch? | It is the most recent Ice Age out of 5 | 8 | |
| 4902996068 | What is the Holocene Epoch? | It is the current period of geological time and notable for the Earth's warming trend allowing for agriculture to take place | 9 | |
| 4903034097 | What is the definition of culture? | Socially transmitted patterns of human action and expression | 10 | |
| 4903042118 | What is the definition of history? | The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices | 11 | |
| 4903052001 | The Stone Age is characterized by what? | The production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances | 12 | |
| 4903057192 | The Stone Age lasted from about when to when? | 2.6 million - 4,000 years ago | 13 | |
| 4903063968 | During the Stone Age, not all tools were made out of stone, some were made out of what three types of material? | Bone, wood, and skin | 14 | |
| 4903072083 | What is the definition of paleolithic? | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s) | 15 | |
| 4903075832 | Neolithic is associated with what? | The origins of agriculture | 16 | |
| 4903079997 | Neolithic is also known as the what? | New Stone Age | 17 | |
| 4903083983 | Name one benefit of cooking food. | It makes meats and vegetables easier to digest | 18 | |
| 4903105336 | Prehistory is before what year? | 3500 B.C.E | 19 | |
| 4903109076 | How long did prehistory last? | Millions of years | 20 | |
| 4903112594 | What three things did early belief systems believe in? | Spirits, sacred places, and an afterlife | 21 | |
| 4903125131 | The early belief systems practiced what, which was in contrast to? | Polydaemonism, polytheism | 22 | |
| 4903141290 | What is polytheism? | A belief in many gods | 23 | |
| 4903145431 | What is polydaemonism? | The belief in many spirits (not specific gods) | 24 | |
| 4903153550 | What is a hominid? | Human-like animals that would walk upright | 25 | |
| 4903156821 | The earliest hominid lived around how many years ago? Where did they live? | 4.4 million years, in the humid forests of eastern and southern Africa | 26 | |
| 4903168321 | What is a australopithecine? | An extinct genus of hominids | 27 | |
| 4903219900 | Homo Habilis lived roughly from when to when? | 2.8 million - 1.5 million years ago | 28 | |
| 4903234844 | What hominid is known as "handy man" or "able man?" | Homo Habilis | 29 | |
| 4903249278 | Homo Erectus is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the _______________ _______________ epoch. | Pleistocene geological | 30 | |
| 4903256789 | The earliest fossil evidence of Homo Erectus dates back to ______________ years ago to _______________. | 1.9 million; 70,000 | 31 | |
| 4903244979 | What hominid is known as the "consciously thinking human?" | Homo Sapien | 32 | |
| 4903274167 | Homo Sapien Sapien is a subspecies of what? | Homo Sapien | 33 | |
| 4903279126 | What is a Neanderthal? | A primate | 34 | |
| 4903282230 | Neanderthal lived about how long ago? | 40,000 years | 35 | |
| 4903285860 | Neanderthals were prevalent during the what period? | Paleolithic | 36 | |
| 4903294708 | Cro-Magnon is a common name that has been used to describe the first early modern what? | Humans | 37 | |
| 4903312446 | Who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans? | Mary and Louis Leakey | 38 | |
| 4903316104 | Who was the Paleoanthropologist team that convinced the world that humans first evolved in Africa? | Mary and Louis Leakey | 39 | |
| 4903319357 | Who examined the palate of Zinjanthropus? | Mary and Louis Leakey | 40 | |
| 4903324491 | Who is Donald Johansen? | An American paleoanthropologist | 41 | |
| 4903330379 | Who is known for discovering the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia? | Donald Johansen | 42 | |
| 4903332982 | Where was "Lucy" found? | In the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia | 43 | |
| 4903335606 | Who is "Lucy?" | The fossil of a female hominid australopithecine, a hominid who could walk upright and manipulate tools with her hands | 44 | |
| 4903348551 | What is bipedalism? | A form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs | 45 | |
| 4903355136 | The Paleolithic era is followed by _______________. | Mesolithic | 46 | |
| 4903362579 | The Mesolithic Period is also known as what? | The Middle Stone Age | 47 | |
| 4903366293 | Mesolithic cultures lasted in Europe until almost... | 3000 B.C.E | 48 | |
| 4903376080 | The Mesolithic Period in human development between the end of the _______________ period and the beginning of the _______________ period. | Paleolithic; Neolithic | 49 | |
| 4903393014 | What is a patriarchy? | A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line | 50 | |
| 4903411796 | Who are Foragers? | People who support themselves by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild edible plants and insects | 51 | |
| 4903416939 | Early foragers lived in _______________ that were big enough to defend themselves from predators and divide responsibility for food collection and preparation. | Groups | 52 | |
| 4903421945 | Pastoral nomadism is an alternative to what? | Sedentary agriculture | 53 | |
| 4903426495 | What is nomadism? | The practice of moving frequently from one place to the other | 54 | |
| 4903429512 | Pastoral nomadism was developed across the grassy plains of _______________ _______________ and nearby desert areas of the _______________ _______________ and the _______________. | Central Eurasia; Arabian Peninsula; Sudan | 55 | |
| 4903444842 | Paleolithic Social Structure - Authority was based on what? | Family relationships | 56 | |
| 4903447432 | Who took the leadership roles? | Men | 57 | |
| 4903450246 | Who were highly valued as gatherers? | Women | 58 | |
| 4903452821 | Labor was divided based on what? | Gender | 59 | |
| 4903454932 | What is egalitarianism? | Believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities | 60 | |
| 4903458038 | What is a kinship group? | A family, clan, or other group based on kinship | 61 | |
| 4903461074 | What was used as an organizational device in many traditional societies? | Kinship | 62 |
