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| 4711884630 | BP | Before Present - Ancient, no exact date | 0 | |
| 4711885939 | BCE | Before Common Era - Earlier than 2,000 years ago. | 1 | |
| 4711891913 | CE | Common Era - After 2,000 years ago. | 2 | |
| 4711900133 | When compared with modern humans, Australopithecus was considered... | thinner. | 3 | |
| 4711902679 | Overall knowledge of prehistory is... | incomplete. | 4 | |
| 4711905161 | What is essential to calling a civilization or time period "historical"? | The presence of writing and record keeping. | 5 | |
| 4711907041 | Prehistoric periods are usually marked with the time label: | BP | 6 | |
| 4711909541 | Writing and record-keeping are an important characteristic that defines a "complex civilization". | True | 7 | |
| 4711911959 | Paleolithic Era (aka): | Old Stone Age | 8 | |
| 4711913361 | Home erectus | -1.5 BP - 200,000 BP -gathered plants -cooperative hunting -learned to cook meat | 9 | |
| 4711915663 | Longest running time period in history | Paleolithic starting in 2.2 million BP ending about 12,000 BP | 10 | |
| 4711919856 | Homo sapiens | -evolved around 250,000 BP -relatively intelligent -Tools -language skills -Eastern Africa | 11 | |
| 4711925590 | Neanderthals | -Between 200,000 and 50,000 BP -Europe and SW Asia, Africa & E Asia -Everywhere but the Americas by 80,000 BP -Clothes from animal skins -First evidence of reflective thought - flowers at graves | 12 | |
| 4711973551 | Which of the following hominids were first to migrate out of Africa? | Homo erectus | 13 | |
| 4711974310 | Cro-Magnon | -Appeared around 100,000 BP -better organization -Slowly displace Neanderthals by killing or inter-breeding. -By 40,000 BP had largely replaced Neanderthals -Group hunting more complex -rudiments of social order -tools more sophisticated -visual representation of thought as cave paintings | 14 | |
| 4711984215 | Migration | -100,000 BP, humans began to spread out of Africa to tropical & temperate zones of Eastern Hemisphere. -60,000 BP crossed into ice-age Australia -40,000 BP Cro-Magnon were in Europe, & across ice-age land bridge into North America -20,000 BP modern humans in Mesoamerica (modern-day Mexico) -13,000 BP furthest south in South America, at this point humans lived on all continents excepts Antarctica | 15 | |
| 4712009890 | Culture | Practices, materials, & ideas such as gender roles. | 16 | |
| 4712016449 | Agricultural Evolution | Between 12,000 & 6,000 BP humans began to cultivate plants and domesticate animals to raise their own food. -Worldwide phenomenon -Caused first large scale settlements. | 17 | |
| 4712047524 | Chain of Exploitation | 1.Powerful elite that exploited other men/women. 2.Who in turn exploited the farmers 3.Who exploited the natural environment. | 18 | |
| 4712053191 | First Towns and Cities | Between 4,000 and 3,500 BCE, mostly professionals and elites. tradesmen, managers, artists, cultural professionals. | 19 |
