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Multiple choice social studies from stone to metal progress in history prehistoric age indus valley civilization

During which age did humans started producing food grains?

  1. New stone age

  2. Middle stone age

  3. Old stone age

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

Humans started producing foodgrains in the Neolithic age i.e. New Stone Age. The term Neolithic Period refers to the last stage of the Stone Age extending from 4000 BC to 2500 BC. Archaeological evidence indicates that the transition from food-collecting cultures to food-producing ones. Man began to cultivate which is suggested by archaeological evidences across Asia and Europe.

Multiple choice social studies from stone to metal progress in history prehistoric age indus valley civilization

State whether the sentence is true (T) or false (F).
Palaeolithic tools were still made and used in Neolithic Age.

  1. True

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

During the Paleolithic Age, hominins grouped together in small societies such as bands, and subsisted by gathering plants and fishing, hunting or scavenging wild animals. The Paleolithic Age is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools.

Toward the end of the Neolithic Era, people began to use tools made from metal. Copper was the first metal used for tools. Eventually copper replaced the stone, leading to the Copper Age.

Multiple choice social studies from stone to metal progress in history prehistoric age indus valley civilization

State whether the sentence is true (T) or false (F).
Paiyampalli is a Neolithic site in Madhya Pradesh.

  1. True

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

Paiyampalli. Paiyampalli is a village in Tirupattur taluka of Vellore district in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 5 km east of Barugur and 8 km west of Natrampalli. It is known for the excavation site in the region which has remains of neolithic and megalithic periods.

Multiple choice social studies from stone to metal progress in history prehistoric age indus valley civilization

Which statement is best describes the primary reason that historians know less about the early civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa than they do about those of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Asia, and Mesoamerica?

  1. A plague decimated the Bantu population around 1000 B.C.E.

  2. The early sub-Saharan African civilizations did not develop a system of writing.

  3. The destruction that followed a series of barbarian invasions wiped out most of the historical record of the Kush empire.

  4. The sub-Saharan African climate is not conducive to the preservation of historical artifacts.

  5. Linguists have not been able to decipher the system of writing used during sub-Saharan Africa's early history.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The early sub-Saharan African civilizations did not develop a system of writing is best describes the primary reason that historians know less about the early civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa than they do about those of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Asia and Mesoamerica.