World History
Chapter 1 study guide
Davis
Early Humans
1. What is the period before writing was
developed?
18. What were outcomes of people developing
farming villages?
2. What is Anthropology?
19. The trading of goods did what to people?
3. What is Archaeology?
20. What became more refined and cultivated?
a. What are artifacts?
21. What did food surpluses do for Neolithic
farming villages?
4. What are the two types of dating techniques?
22. How did gender roles differ?
5. What does C-14 measure?
a. Men
6. What does Thermo luminescence do?
7. Louis B. and Mary Leakey discovered what?
b. Women
8. “Homo erectus” means?
9. Homo sapiens sapiens spread how fast?
10. Who belongs to the Homo sapiens sapiens
subspecies?
11. Why were Paleolithic people nomads?
12. What tools were used during the Paleolithic
Age?
23. How did men come to play a more dominant
role?
o Still here today?
 What are the basic characteristics of
civilizations?
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2. _
Neolithic Revolution
13. The Neolithic Age called?
3. _
14. What was important about the ability to acquire
food on a regular basis?
4. _
15. The Neolithic Revolution can be best described
as what?
16. What was the real change in the Neolithic
Revolution?
17. The movement toward what led people to settle
in one area?
5. _
6. _