Chapter 2 Study Guide

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Lesson 1 (pages 50-55)

1. What are the 3 main ideas of lesson 1?

2. Define the following words:

Hunter-gatherer

Nomad

Migration

Technology

Religion

3. How did a spear thrower help prehistoric hunters?

4. How did early humans interact with the environment?

5. What did the hunter-gatherers do when they ran out of food?

6. What did the hunter-gatherers use for shelter if they lived on the plains?

7. What job(s) did the men do?

8. What job(s) did the women do?

9. Why may have people migrated?

10. Looking at the map on page 52, what are 3 things you can infer from the map?

11. What are 4 tools created by early humans?

12. How did the development of tools change the life of early humans?

13. How did early humans use fire?

14. What kind of culture did early humans create?

15. What need lead to the development of language?

16. Besides cave art, what other kinds of art did early humans create?

17. Where has are some of the places early art has been found?

18. What does their art tell us about early humans?

Lesson 2 (pages 58-62)

1.. What are the 3 main ideas of lesson 2?

2. Define the following words:

Fertile

Domesticate

Agriculture

Slash-and-burn

Irrigation

3. What new farming tools and methods did early farmers invent?

4. When did humans begin to modify their environment and start raising animals and growing plants?

5. What caused the retreat of the Ice Age glaciers?

6. What is the name of the shift from food gathering to food raising?

7. What was the impact of new tools on early humans?

8. What was the problem with slash-and-burn farming?

9. Why did villages develop?

10. What kind of land had soil that was especially rich?

11. What were the shelters made from?

12. What was an advantage of living in a village?

13. Where did the early farms develop?

14. What crops did early American farmers grow?

Lesson 3 pages (64-69)

1. What are the 3 main ideas of lesson 3?

2. Define the following words:

Surplus

Specialization

Artisan

Social class

Government

3. How did farming villages develop?

4. How did surpluses contribute to the development of religion?

5. What were the first 2 specializations of villagers?

6. How did surpluses affect village life?

7. How did life in villages become more complex?

8. How did specialization and the development of different trades lead to the development of social classes?

9. Why did people start governments?

10. How did life in complex villages compare with that in a simple village?

11. What characteristics of Catal Huyuk identify it as a complex village?