Practice Test

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Practice Test

Goal today:

• I am prepared for my test on thursday

A source:

1. is always a text from the past
2. is never a written text
3. can be written as well as unwritten
4. is only found by archaeologists

Farming started in the Middle East because:

1. the area was flooded by rivers every year
2. there were large rivers
3. the first farmers lived there
4. hunter-gatherers collected most of their food there

What is the best description of Prehistory?

1. the time of which we have no written records
2. All the time BC
3. the time from the dinosaurs until Lucy
4. the time in which people lived as hunter-gatherers

Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Which century was that?

1. 18th
2. 19th
3. 17th
4. 1800th

Which year belongs to the fifteenth century?

1. 1492
2. 1576
3. 1430 BC
4. 1688 AD

Does this picture show a time before or after the agricultural revolution? Explain your answer naming at least two things you see in the source.

These pots were made by farmers. Explain why the hunter-gatherers didn't use pottery like this.

Explain how the flooding of the Nile caused people to be able to be craftsmen. Use the keywords irrigation and agricultural surplus.

This source is a Mesopotamian clay tablet. Did the Mesopotamians live in Prehistory? Why, or why not?

Put the following events from this period in the correct order of time. Drag them in the correct order of time.

The invention of writing

The first cities with their own culture, religion and government

The origin of mankind

The start of trade

Livelihood: Hunting and Gathering.

 The use of new inventions such as pots and plows.

Drag the characteristics into the correct subject. 

Hunters & gatherers

First farmers

Early civilisations

nomads

pots & pans

division of tasks between man and woman

a marketplace

Written language

clothes made of wool

a carpenter

What was this area called again?

1. Crescent moon
2. Fertile moon
3. Fertile crescent
4. Fertile Egypt

Drag in the correct order.

Zet in de juiste volgorde

Invention of Agriculture

Farmers selling food on markets

Cities start around markets

Farmers use fertile floods to grow their crops

Correct the sentence;
The early farmers were nomads

Correct the sentence;
Hunter-Gatherers lived in groups of up to a 100 people

Correct the sentence;
The dog was domesticated by the early farmers

You're finished!

Great job. Now you can grab your book and check yourself. If you want you can come up with your own test questions.