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| 4780178985 | environment | What historical theme is the interaction between humans and environment? | 0 | |
| 4780182170 | culture | What historical theme is the development and interaction of cultures? | 1 | |
| 4780182171 | state building | What historical theme is the state building, expansion, and conflict? | 2 | |
| 4780183936 | economy | What historical theme is the creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems? | 3 | |
| 4780185648 | social structure | What historical theme is the development and transformation of social structures? | 4 | |
| 4780196225 | advanced civilizations | cultures characterized by high levels of technological advancement, specialization of labor, political structure, social interaction, and intellectual development | 5 | |
| 4780201718 | gender based division of labor | allocation of work responsibilities culturally predetermined by gender | 6 | |
| 4780203436 | hominids | early species of humanlike beings who exhibited uniquely human characteristics | 7 | |
| 4780207533 | homo erectus (upright human) | hominid species that populated temperate zones (upright human) | 8 | |
| 4780208835 | homo sapiens | hominid species that populated more severe climates (humans with ability to reason) | 9 | |
| 4780210676 | Neolithic revolution | gradual but momentous transition of Neolithic humans from hunting-and-gathering economies to agricultural or pastoral economies | 10 | |
| 4780214934 | nomadic | moving from place to place to pursue a livelihood | 11 | |
| 4780217170 | opposable thumb | digit that enables a hand to grasp things | 12 | |
| 4780220722 | Made more use of shelter and fire and developed warmer clothing | How did Paleolithic humans adapt to survive during the Pleistocene era? | 13 | |
| 4780224868 | Growing wealth and power led to suspicion, envy, and sometimes warfare | What accurately reflects the state of world affairs during the Neolithic Revolution? | 14 | |
| 4780229721 | Neolithic people studied the natural world to increase their understanding of the spiritual world | What accurately describes interplay of aesthetics, intellectual life, and religion during the Neolithic Revolution? | 15 | |
| 4780727829 | anthropologists | scientists who study the development of the distinctive cultures, lifestyles, and social interactions of human beings in the past or present | 16 | |
| 4780730628 | archaeologists | scientists who study the cultures, lifestyles, and social interactions of human beings in the past by examining their constructions and artifacts | 17 | |
| 4780733173 | clans | small, close-knit kinship groups descended from a common ansector | 18 | |
| 4780734608 | egalitarian | characterized by equality of rights and treatment among individuals | 19 | |
| 4780735929 | Mesolithic Era | "Middle Stone Age"; the prehistoric era lasting from about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago | 20 | |
| 4780738685 | Neolithic Era | "New Stone Age"; the prehistoric era from 8000 B.C.E and lasting until the development of metal tools in 3500 B.C.E. | 21 | |
| 4780744307 | Paleolithic Era | "Old Stone Age" ; prehistoric era beginning between 2 and 4 million years ago and lasting until about 12,000 years ago | 22 | |
| 4780748331 | Stone Age | era of prehistory lasting from about 2 to 4 million years ago to about 3,000 or 4,000 years B.C.E and characterized by the use of stone tools | 23 | |
| 4780751637 | tribes | large kinship groups descended from a common ancestor and sharing social or informal political ties | 24 | |
| 4780798770 | 4 to 5 million years ago in Eastern Africa | When did the first hominids to stand upright? | 25 | |
| 4780807105 | Homo sapiens | Who came after the homo erectus? | 26 | |
| 4780845665 | homo erectus | Who were the first hominids to leave East Africa? | 27 | |
| 4780856637 | Neandrathal Man and Cro-Magnon | 2 subspecies of homo sapiens? | 28 | |
| 4780858602 | cro magnon | Which subspecies was most like the modern human being? | 29 | |
| 4781135714 | Europe - Australia - Americas - East Asian Islands | Which sequence best describes the order of migrations of homo sapiens from the Middle East after emerging from Africa? | 30 | |
| 4781154679 | Nomadic hunter gatherer groups owned a few possessions and probably had no concept of private property | Which description best characterizes the economies of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies | 31 | |
| 4781158713 | large fire pit, 3 broken projectile points, 10 worn out scrapers, multiple fragments of burnt bone | Which tools and artifacts found at a Stone Age site would clearly identify it as a long term camp for an early Paleolithic hunter gatherer group? | 32 | |
| 4781175685 | several finely shaped bone needles | Which item uncovered at an archaeological dig would indicate that the site probably dates from the Mesolithic era rather than Paleolithic? | 33 | |
| 4784487359 | the most recent ice age | What was the Pleistocene Era? | 34 | |
| 4785533447 | ground stone tools improved so much in quality that they made chip stone tools obsolete | Which statement describing technological and agricultural innovation during the Neolithic Era is most accurate? | 35 | |
| 4785542335 | landowners | Who were the wealthiest and most prominent members of an agricultural society? | 36 | |
| 4786393858 | pastoralism | practice of herding sheep, goats, or other cattle for food or other products | 37 | |
| 4786399146 | migratory farming | technique of cultivating land continuously until the soil is depleted and then moving to a new area to cultivate land | 38 | |
| 4786399147 | slash and burn farming | clearing and fertilizing land for cultivation by slashing bark of trees to kill them and burning dead wood | 39 | |
| 4786422641 | fallow | allowing a cultivated field to revert temporarily to its natural regeneration to increase fertility | 40 | |
| 4786426363 | Jericho | earliest known Neolithic Village | 41 | |
| 4786427309 | 8000 BCE | when was Jericho founded | 42 | |
| 4786428409 | Catal Huyuk | What village had no streets or ground level entrances and used rooftops to move around? | 43 | |
| 4786433551 | wealth and social distinction | determination of an individuals standing based on his or her material worth | 44 | |
| 4786437864 | metallurgy | technique of extracting metals from ore and purifying them | 45 | |
| 4786439565 | metalworking | shaping metal into tools and implements | 46 | |
| 4786442192 | Between 4000 and 3000 BCE | When was bronze first made? | 47 | |
| 4786444908 | matrilineal societies | Which society do children inherit their mothers lineage | 48 | |
| 4786445661 | patrilineal societies | Which society do children inherit their fathers lineage | 49 | |
| 4786449098 | nuclear family | familial group consisting of mother, father, and children | 50 | |
| 4786452599 | Middle East, East Asia, Africa, Americas, to most temperate places | Route of agriculture | 51 | |
| 4806446166 | 5 to 6 billion years ago | When did the earth form? | 52 | |
| 4806448173 | 60 million years ago | When did the current position of our landmasses come into place? | 53 | |
| 4806452876 | Aborigines (Australia's native human population) | Oldest human ethnic group? | 54 | |
| 4806464136 | 3500 B.C.E in Middle Eastern Mesopotamia between Tigris and Euphrates river | When did civilized humanity begin? | 55 | |
| 4806474108 | Egyptians and Indus Valley civilization | Who were the next 2 civilized humanity civilizations? | 56 | |
| 4806478752 | 3500 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia, it was called cuneiform | When and what was the first writing system called? | 57 | |
| 4806481125 | Anatolia in 8000 B.C.E | Where and when did the first domesticated plants/animals? | 58 | |
| 4806484474 | irrigation | the method of watering agricultural crops by diverting water into fields in controlled volumes | 59 | |
| 4806489625 | lugals | What was equivalent to kings in 3000-2000 BCE Mesopotamia? | 60 | |
| 4806492526 | Mediterraean Sea Red Sea Arabian Sea Sea of Japan East China Sea South China Sea Caribbean Sea | What were the 7 seas of most importance to the early civilizations? | 61 | |
| 4806534405 | 8 inches | How many inches of rainfall do cereal crops need? | 62 | |
| 4817686810 | True | True or False? Stone Age social groups sustained themselves by hunting and gathering | 63 | |
| 4817691274 | fertilization, irrigation, and mixed crop types | Types of farming techniques? | 64 | |
| 4817704470 | food surplus | meant they had more than they needed and could trade | 65 | |
| 4817707793 | 10000-4000 BCE | New Stone Age | 66 | |
| 4817750135 | 5000-1200 BCE | river valley civilizations | 67 |
