History · General Awareness

Early Human and Prehistoric Cultures

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Early human and prehistoric cultures focus on the lifestyle and evolution of humans before written records. This includes the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras, focusing on inventions, agriculture, and migration patterns. These questions are a core part of ancient history in civil services exams.

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Early Human and Prehistoric Cultures Questions

Multiple choice history heritage management conservation and preservation of heritage sources of modern history introduction to medieval india

Folk/Oral sources are a boon to ______.

  1. Archaeologists

  2. Scientists

  3. Historians

  4. Researchers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Historians have always considered the history of ordinary people equally important. They made attempts to stir the memories of common folks to unearth details about various incidents and events. They are also trying to write history based on the study if folk songs, social traditions etc.

So many such folk/oral sources are a boon to Historians.

Multiple choice history heritage management conservation and preservation of heritage sources of modern history introduction to medieval india

How do we come to know about human activities in the past?

  1. Remains of food grains, seeds and bones of animals

  2. Remains of houses and buildings built

  3. Ancient coins and seals

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
We get information about diet of the people from the remains of food grains, seeds and bones of animals found in excavations. Moreover, by studying the stone tools left by the early humans, one can study the butchering activities and the level of technology. Also we find the remains of houses and buildings built in different historical periods.
We also find ancient coins and seals which are an important source of insight on the economy of the period and different dynasties and kings.All these give us information about human activities in the past.
Multiple choice civics population and settlement education, healthcare and human resource development concepts of individualism and society individual and society

The primitive stage in the human society is known ____________.

  1. Pastoral Age

  2. Huntinge Age

  3. Industrial Age

  4. Agricultural Age
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Hunting age was the period in which hunter-gatherer had to catch or find everything they ate. They moved from place to place in search of food. Pastoral age consisted of shepherds herding livestock in open grassland areas, according to the availability of water and pasture. Agricultural age involved improved crop productivity due to the adoption of new farming techniques. The industrial age is attributed to the advent of power driven machines, steam engines, power looms which changed the economic and social condition of humans. Option B Hunting Age is the correct answer, as the most primitive stage.    

Multiple choice civics agriculture in india - i : introduction agricultural reforms indian agriculture problem and policies plantation of crops

The oldest horticultural society of the world is ___________________.

  1. The Ottawa Horticultural Society

  2. Ancient Society of York Florists

  3. Royal Horticultural Society

  4. The Acton Horticultural Society
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The oldest horticultural society of the world is Ancient Society of York Florists. It was founded in the year 1768. They conduct about four horticultural shows every year in York of United Kingdom.

Multiple choice chemistry materials of daily use classification of fibres fibres history of fabric

After people began to settle in agricultural communities, they learnt to weave twigs and grass into mats and baskets.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

After people began to settle in agricultural communities, they learnt to weave twigs and grass into mats and baskets. Vines, animal fleece or hair were twisted together into long strands. These were woven into fabrics.

Multiple choice chemistry materials of daily use classification of fibres fibres history of fabric

After people began to settle in agricultural communities, they learnt to weave ____________ and ____________ into mats and baskets.

  1. grass, twigs

  2. cotton, jute

  3. twigs, grass

  4. jute, cotton
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

After people began to settle in agricultural communities, they learnt to weave grass and twigs into mats and baskets.

Multiple choice organisation of commerce and management trade trade and factors affecting trade trading and economic organisations trade and trade organisations
Choose the correct word.
Primitive method of trade was known as ___________ system.

  1. Value

  2. Barter

  3. Traditional

  4. Money
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Barter is a system where people engage in exchange of goods and services without the use of money as payment. Instead in return of the item purchased, one has to provide some service or give some goods in return to the person from which the good is purchased.

Multiple choice geography economic activity people and resources utilisation of europe europe - peninsula of asia continents: europe

Animals were used for transport in _____________.

    1. 9,000 BCE

    2. 6,000 BCE

    3. 5,000 BCE

    4. 4,000 BCE
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    A Correct answer
    Explanation

    $9000 BCE$

    During a war, horses, donkeys, mules and camels were used to transport commodity. Pigeons and dogs were the first animals used to transfer messages. Canneries and other small birds were used to detect toxins. These were many animals used in war, from rodents to ferocious large animals, but the first animal' to use in war was a donkey or mule which was used to carry weapons.

    Multiple choice geography economic activity people and resources utilisation of europe europe - peninsula of asia continents: europe

    Gauls and Celts are the part of which group of people in Europe?

    1. Nordic

    2. Alpine

    3. Mediterranean

    4. All of the above
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    B Correct answer
    Explanation

    The Celts were a European cultural group first evident in the 7th or 8th century B.C. The Romans called them Galli and the Greeks called them Keltoi-- both meaning barbarians. Their maximum expansion was in the 3rd to 5th century B.C., when they occupied much of Europe north of the Alps.

    Multiple choice social studies from gathering food to growing food - the earliest people tribal societies the earliest people tribes, nomad and settled societies

    Present day historians use _________ to write tribal histories.

    1. Written Records

    2. Oral traditions

    3. Both

    4. None
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    B Correct answer
    Explanation

    Contemporary historians and travellers give very scanty information about tribes. A few exceptions apart, tribal people did not keep written records. But they preserved rich customs and oral traditions. These were passed down to each new generation. Present day historians have started using such oral traditions to write tribal histories.

    Multiple choice social studies from gathering food to growing food - the earliest people tribal societies the earliest people tribes, nomad and settled societies

    The tribes obtained their livelihood from _____________.

    1. Agriculture

    2. Hunting and Gathering

    3. Herding

    4. All of the above
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    D Correct answer
    Explanation

    Members of each tribe were united by kinship bonds. Many tribes obtained their livelihood from agriculture. Others were hunter-gatherers or herders. Most often they combined these activities to make full use of the natural resources of the area in which they lived.

    Multiple choice social studies from gathering food to growing food - the earliest people tribal societies the earliest people tribes, nomad and settled societies

    What was used to keep off wild animals by the early people?

    1. Water

    2. Wood

    3. Fire

    4. Stones
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    C Correct answer
    Explanation

    Fire used to keep off wild animal by early people.Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are highly evident on many landscapes. Birds such as hawks, and some other predators, are alert to opportunities to catch animals including invertebrates disturbed by such fires and similar benefits are likely to underlie the first human involvements with fires. Early humans were certainly familiar with the heat of the sun. They must have observed lightning flashes. The human control of fire likely required a cognitive ability to conceptualize the idea of fire.