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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 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.

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

    Name the developed stone tool needed to clear forests by cutting trees and branches by the early farmers.

    1. Axe

    2. Neolith

    3. Microlith

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

    The early farmers needed to clear forests by cutting trees and branches. They developed a new kind of stone tool which is called neolith by archeologists. It is after this new kind of stone tool that this period of early agriculture is called Neolithic Period.

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

    What were the tools of earliest people made of?

    1. Steel

    2. Stones

    3. Iron

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

    Today we use machines, tractors and tools made of steel etc. The earliest people also used tools; but these were made of stones, bones and wood. Initially, large stones were given sharp edges by very careful breaking with another stone. This gave the people a tool which enabled them to cut flesh, dig the earth for tubers and hunt animals.

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

    __________ were fine, small pieces of hard stone made by the earlier people.

    1. Neolith

    2. Axe

    3. Dagger

    4. Microliths
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    D Correct answer
    Explanation

    The earliest people made fine, small pieces from hard stone. These pieces were called Microliths. They were fixed to wooden or bone handles which then served as knives, arrows, sickles etc. These weapons were used to dig soil, chop the trees for the bark, remove the skins of animals, clean the skins, stitch clothes out of the skin, cut meat and bone, chop fruit and roots and hunt the animals easily.

    Multiple choice pastoral nomand and their movements pastoralists in the modern world history

    The word 'Maasai' is derived from the word Maa. Maa-sai which means ______.

    1. My people

    2. Mother and people

    3. Their people

    4. Tribal people
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    A Correct answer
    Explanation

    The term 'Maasai' comes from 'Maa', which refers to the language, and 'sai', which translates to 'my people' in their cultural context.

    Multiple choice pastoral nomand and their movements pastoralists in the modern world history

    Which of the following statements best explains pastoralist nomads?

    1. The villagers who move from one place to another.

    2. The people who do not have a permanent place to live in.

    3. The herdsmen who move from one place to another looking for pasture for their herd.

    4. The people who visit many places for enjoyment.
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    C Correct answer
    Explanation

    Nomads are people who do not live in one place but move from one area to another to earn their living. In many parts of India, we can see nomadic pastoralists on the move with their herds of goats and sheep, or camels and cattle. 

    Multiple choice pastoral nomand and their movements pastoralists in the modern world history

    The social changes in Maasai society are that ___________________________.

    1. The traditional difference based on age between the elders and warriors has been disturbed, but it has not broken down.

    2. a new distinction between the wealthy and the poor pastoralists has developed.

    3. both (a) and (b)

    4. None of these
    Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
    C Correct answer
    Explanation

    Pastoral communities in different parts of the world are affected in a variety of different ways by changes in the modern world. New laws and new borders affect the patterns of their movement.  Pastoralists are not relics of the past. They are not people who have no place in the modern world. Environmentalists and economists have increasingly come to recognise that pastoral nomadism is a form of life that is perfectly suited to many hilly and dry regions of the world.