History End of Term 1 Exams
Answer these question. Choose the best answer from the blanket.
1. We can find out about prehistoric people by:
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(Reading letters they left behind, asking older relatives, studying objects paintings and remains
From the time.)
2. When people began to farm they started to:
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{catch fish in nets, grow crops for food, find wild plants to eat.)
3. The Stone Age is divided into three periods: the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic
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(the Prehistoric, Neolithic, Anaglyptic.)
4. When people started using Bronze, a new way of living developed
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(people began to live in large cities, the city was also easier to defend, to provide food.)
5. The Bronze Age ended when people began to use:
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(copper, iron, tin.)
6. In some places, during the Bronze Age, people lived together in very large settlements called:
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(villages, farms, cities.)
7. In the early Stone Age people made tools by banging one stone against another to make a sharp
edge. People used these tools
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(as axes and knives, as hammers, to make jewellery.)
8. A prehistoric arrow head tells us how people of the time:
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(cooked and cleaned, hunted and fought, relaxed and played.)
History End of Term 1 Exams
9. After people started farming, they had to move from one place another?
Explain.________________________________________________________________________
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10. Write down three ways in which your life is different from the lives of people in the Stone Age
and three ways in which it is the same?
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11. People who move from place to place in search of food and water are called
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(wanderers, settlers, nomads)
12. Why was Bronze better than Stone?
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13. How did the Stone Age people survive?
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14. The Stone Age is a __________________________________ period of time. (Bronze Age,
prehistoric, hunter-gatherers)
15. They were no __________________________ selling food and clothes. (people, shop,
archeologist)
16. A person who studies past human life, by looking at objects and other evidence is called
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History End of Term 1 Exams
17. Stone Age people also gathered food from different plants. They ate fruits, nuts, berries, green
plants, roots and wild grain. We call these people
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(hunters-gatherers, Stone Age, prehistoric)
18. Where did people find shelter to keep ___________________, ______________________and
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19. Write one reason why bronze is a better material for this objects than stone or
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20. Most people in the ___________________________ still worked as farmers producing food.
( stone age, iron age, bronze age)
21. People started to use iron instead of bronze because iron was
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(cheaper and stronger, stronger and more expensive, softer and cheaper)
22. Trade in tin was important during the Bronze Age
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23. The Stone Age people were wearing on jewellery. What was their jewellery made from
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24. Write a list of all the things you will need to make a simple Stone Age shelter and a fire
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History End of Term 1 Exams
