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The Prehistoric Ages
For roughly 2.5 million years, humans lived on Earth without leaving a written record of their lives.
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1.
Archaeologists traditionally divide prehistory into three main periods, named after the main technologies used at the time. What age came the last?
Stone Age
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Golden Age
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Bronze Age
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Iron Age
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2.
What is the oldest race in human lineage?
Homo sapiens
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Australopithecus
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Homo habilis
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Homo erectus
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3.
The first evidence of Homo sapiens, modern humans, is from which continent?
Australia
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Asia
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South America
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Africa
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4.
Homo sapiens neanderthals were named after the Neander valley, where their remains were found. In which country is that valley?
Ethiopia
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France
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Tanzania
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Germany
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5.
Cro-Magnons were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe. Where were their remains found?
France
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Croatia
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Italy
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Spain
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6.
What is the name of Venus figurine estimated to have been made in 30,000 BCE?
Venus of Milo
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Venus of Brassempouy
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Venus of Willendorf
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Venus of Monruz
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7.
What is the name of the most famous Australopithecus, a fossilized skeleton from Ethiopia dated to 3.2 million years ago?
Eva
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Lucy
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Jane
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Maria
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8.
Which of the following Stone Age subgroups is most closely associated with human agricultural development?
Mesolithic
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Epipalaeolithic
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Paleolithic
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Neolithic
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9.
On which island Dutch physician Eugene Dubois located the first examples of what he called 'Pithecanthropus erectus', also known as Homo erectus in 1891?
Borneo
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Java
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Madagascar
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Cuba
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10.
What was the Neolithic Age?
New Stone Age
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Middle Stone Age
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Old Stone Age
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11.
Who came up with the theory of human evolution?
Louis Pasteur
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Gregor Mendel
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Richard Dawkins
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Charles Darwin
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12.
Around what year the prehistoric period comes to an end?
5000 B.C.
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100 B.C.
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3000 B.C.
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10000 B.C.
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