Early humans and first cities

Questions

1. How did hunter-gatherers get most of their food?

   • By growing crops in large fields
   • By hunting animals and collecting wild plants
   • By raising herds of farm animals
   • By trading with big cities
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   By hunting animals and collecting wild plants

2. Why did many hunter-gatherer groups move from place to place?

   • To escape from tall city walls
   • To find land for building canals
   • To follow animals and seasonal food
   • To sell goods in far markets
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   To follow animals and seasonal food

3. Early hunter-gatherers made tools from stone, bone and wood. (True or false?)

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   True

4. Which discovery let early people stay warm and cook food?

   • Fire
   • Metal coins
   • The plough
   • The wheel
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   Fire

5. What is the name for the time when farming began, about 10,000 years ago?

   • The Bronze Age
   • The Ice Age
   • The Iron Age
   • The Neolithic, or New Stone Age
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   The Neolithic, or New Stone Age

6. What does it mean to domesticate an animal?

   • To draw it on cave walls
   • To hunt it for its meat
   • To move it to a new land
   • To tame it and breed it for human use
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   To tame it and breed it for human use

7. Name one crop that early farmers in the Fertile Crescent grew. (Answer out loud)

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   Wheat or barley (also lentils, peas)

8. Why did farming lead people to settle in one place?

   • Animals could no longer be found
   • Crops needed care until harvest time
   • People feared travelling by boat
   • Stone tools had stopped working
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   Crops needed care until harvest time

9. Between which two rivers did the early Sumerian cities grow?

   • The Danube and the Rhine
   • The Indus and the Ganges
   • The Nile and the Congo
   • The Tigris and the Euphrates
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   The Tigris and the Euphrates

10. Food surplus allowed some people in early cities to become specialists, like potters. (True or false?)

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    True

11. Name one Sumerian city. (Answer out loud)

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    Ur, Uruk or Eridu (also Lagash, Kish)

12. What was the name of the earliest writing, made by the Sumerians?

    • Alphabet
    • Braille
    • Cuneiform
    • Hieroglyphs
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    Cuneiform

13. What did Sumerian scribes write on?

    • Clay tablets
    • Cotton cloth
    • Metal plates
    • Paper sheets
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    Clay tablets

14. Writing was first invented to write novels and poems for fun. (True or false?)

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    False

15. Which Babylonian king is famous for a written code of laws? (Answer out loud)

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    Hammurabi

16. Why were written laws useful in early cities?

    • Everyone could see the rules
    • They made all people equal in wealth
    • They removed the need for leaders
    • They stopped crops from failing
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    Everyone could see the rules

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