TERM 2

HISTORY
CHAPTER 1.1 REVIEW

Part A. Please provide meaning to the following vocabulary

BC
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AD
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Prehistoric times
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Historic times
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The Stone Age

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Primary sources
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Secondary sources
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Part B. Fill in the blanks

1. History is the __________________ events of humankind.

2. The two concepts of history are __________________ and

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3. We study history in order to learn from __________________ made in
the past.

4. Historians divide history into two periods: _______________________

and _______________________.

5. Most of the countries use the ________________________ to count

time. It divides time into BC and AD, meaning Before Christ and
________________________.

6. The birth of ________________________ marked the beginning of the

Christian calendar; the years before his birth are called
________________ and those after his birth are known as
________________.

7. Historians use primary sources and ________________________ to

study history.

8. Prehistoric times is also called the Stone Age because the tools used by people
were mainly made from __________________.

9. The Stone Age was divided into the Old Stone Age, the
________________________ and ________________________.

10. Old Stone Age people learned how to hunt, make stone tools and
__________________.

11. Lantian Man once lived in __________________.

12. Middle Stone Age people invented __________________,

__________________, axes and spears to hunt moving animals.
13. New Stone Age people learned how to grow crops and keep
__________________ to increase their food.

14. The use of __________________ in making tools marked the end of the
Stone Age period.

15. Early Old Stone Age people were probably __________________ in

appearance.

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Part C. Multiple Choices

1. What is history?
A. It is the study of current affairs.
B. It is the study of past events.
C. It is the study of people.
D. It is the study of wild animals.

2. Which of the following persons is not a historical figure?

A. Mao Zedong
B. Sun Yixian
C. Adolf Hitler
D. Superman

3. Which of the following statements about history is true?

A. It is the study of politics.
B. It is the study of government.
C. It is the study of the records of the past.
D. It is the study of minerals.

4. Which of the following events is not a historical incident?

A. Mao Zedong proclaimed the birth of the People’s Republic of China in
1949.
B. Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region in 1997.
C. China will hold the Olympic Games in 2008.
D. The First World War broke out in 1914.

5. Which of the following are the main features of history?

(1) continuity
(2) inference
(3) change
(4) /empathy
A. (1) and (2)
B. (1) and (3)
C. (2) and (3)
D. (2) and (4)

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6. Which of the following is not a reason for people to study history?
A. to learn how people lived in the past
B. to learn from the past
C. to learn about the future
D. to learn about the cause-and-effect relationship of things that have
happened in the past

7. Which of the following descriptions of the Christian calendar is true?

A. The years before Christ's birth are known as "AD".
B. The years after Christ's birth are known as "BC".
C. When the year is BC, the greater the number, the earlier something
happened.
D. When the year is AD, the greater the number, the earlier something
happened.

8. What does “BC” in history stand for?

A. Before Christmas
B. Before Christ
C. Before Churchill
D. Before Christianity

9. The Christian calendar starts with______________________.

A. the birth of Jesus Christ.
B. the death of Jesus Christ.
C. the flight of Mohammed to Medina.
D. the setting up of the Qin dynasty.

10. _____________________ is the most popular calendar in the world.

A. The Daoist calendar
B. The Christian calendar
C. The Muslim calendar
D. The Buddhist calendar

11. When did prehistoric times end?

A. after the discovery of metals
B. after the discovery of fire
C. after the invention of writing
D. after the invention of the calendar

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12. When did historic times start?
A. 2500000 BC
B. 15000 BC
C. 4000 BC
D. 2000 BC

13. Which of the following writings was invented first?

A. Chinese writing
B. Sumerian writing
C. Egyptian writing
D. Indus Valley writing

14. One decade represents ___________.

A. 10 years
B. 100 years
C. 1000 years
D. 10000 million years

15. One century represents _______________.

A. 1 year
B. 10 years
C. 100 years
D. 1000 years

16. The period 1890-1899 belongs to the _______________.

A. 1880s
B. 1890s
C. 1980s
D. 1890s

17. The year 2003 belongs to the _______________.

A. 19th century
B. 20th century
C. 21st century
D. None of the above

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18 Arrange the following dates in chronological order.
1. AD 800
2. 800 BC
3. 95 BC
4. AD 1/5
A. 1, 2, 4, 3
B. 3, 2, 4, 1
C. 2, 3, 4, 1
D. 4, 3, 2, 1

18. We are now living in the ______________ century.

A. nineteenth
B. twentieth
C. twenty-first
D. twenty-second

19. Which of the following is not an example of a written source?

A. The Basic Law
B. Hong Kong Annual report
C. Urban Council Annual Report
D. The Great Wall

20. Which of the following is an example of a written source?

A. a Qin soldier statue
B. the Sino-British Joint Declaration
C. the Great Wall
D. the Han Tomb

22. How long did the Stone Age last?

A. about 2 million years
B. about 3 million years
C. about 4 million years
D. about 5 million years

23. Which of the following people did not live in the Stone Age?
A. Lantian Man
B. Java Man
C. Peking Man
D. Modern man

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24. Where did Neanderthal Man live?
A. in Britain
B. in Germany
C. in Indonesia
D. in France

25. Where did Java Man live?

A. in Germany
B. in France
C. in Indonesia
D. in China

26. Where did Cro-Magnon Man live?

A. in France
B. in Germany
C. in Indonesia
D. in China

27. When did the Stone Age end?

A. in about 3000BC
B. in about 4000BC
C. in about 5000BC
D. in about 6000BC

28. When did the Stone Age end?

A. after the discovery of fire
B. after the discovery of metals
C. after the invention of writing
D. after the invention of the calendar

29. Which of the following events marks the end of the Stone Age?
A. the introduction of farming
B. the making of fire
C. the discovery and use of metals
D. the building of houses

30. Stone Age people did not know how to _____________________.

A. cook food
B. make clothes
C. keep written records
D. hunt animals

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Part D. True or False

1. According to the Christian calendar, the bigger the number of the year in AD,
the earlier something happened. ________

2. According to the Christian calendar, the smaller the number of the year in
BC, the earlier something happened. ________

3. BC and AD stand for Before Christ and Anno Domini respectively.

________

4. We call the period since writing was discovered historic times and this period
started from about AD 4000. ________

5. We learn about the past only through the old things dug up by archaeologists
and other primary sources as well. ________

6. Historic times is the period of time before the invention of writing.

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7. Prehistoric times refers to the period of time before written records.

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8. The world’s first writing was invented in 8000 BC. ________

9. A diary is an example of a primary source. ________

10. The Stone Age ended in 4000 BC, which is about 6000 years ago.
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11. Old Stone Age people learned to use metals to make tools and weapons.
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12. We mainly depend on written records to study Stone Age people.

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13. New Stone Age people learned to farm the land, keep animals and mint
coins. ________

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Part E. Please place the events in chronological order

1. (i) making pottery; (ii) making stone tools; (iii) the invention of writing

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2. (i) AD 500; (ii) 500 BC; (iii) 501 BC

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3. (i) Neanderthal Man; (ii) Java Man; (iii) Lantian Man

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4. (i) the invention of bows and arrows; (ii) the discovery of fire; (iii) the
invention of farming

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5. (i) making metal tools; (ii) building shelter from animal bones and skin;
(iii) making stone weapons.

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Part F. Matching
(1)
Column A Column B
(a) The Christian calendar (i) Prehistoric Times
(b) The Chinese calendar (ii) The reign-name of emperor
(c) A century (iii)The birth of Jesus Christ
(d) The Stone Age (iv) 100 years

(2)
Column A Column B
(a) BC (i) People who study ancient artifacts
(b) AD (ii) Anno Domini
(c) History textbook (iii)An example of secondary sources
(d) Archaeologist (iv) From 4000 BC to the present day
(e) Historic Times (v) Before Christ

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(3)
Column A
(a) The Old Stone Age
(b) The Middle Stone Age
(c) The New Stone Age
(d) The discovery of metals
(e) The Sumerian writing
Column B
□ (i) 15000 BC -10000 BC
□ (ii) 10000 BC - 4000 BC
□ (iii)2500000 BC -15000 BC
□ (iv) The world’s earliest writing
□ (v) The end of the Stone Age

Part G. Short Questions

1. Name two main features of history.

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2. What kinds of sources do historians use to study the past?

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3. What is meant by primary sources? Give some examples.

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4. What is the meant by secondary sources?

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5. Which historical event marked the beginning of the Christian calendar?

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6. What do AD and BC stand for?

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7. When did prehistoric times end?

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8. When was the earliest writing invented?

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9. Which historical event marked the end of the Stone Age?

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Part H. Long Questions

1. Why do historians mainly use archaeological findings to study the Stone Age?

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2. Why should we study history?

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3. When was the world’s earliest writing invented? How does the invention of
writing affect the study of history?

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4. When did human beings learn how to farm? How did the introduction of
farming affect the way of life of the people at that time?

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Part I. Data-based Questions

1. Study the sources below and answer the following questions.

I II III

A secondary school textbook Empress Dowager Cixi A treaty signed by the Qing dynasty with a
foreign country
IV V

The Lion Gate A history reference book

Identify the above sources and write your answers in the table below.

Primary Sources Secondary Sources

Written

Non-written

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2. Study the sources below and answer the following questions.
I II

Stone Age people Sumerian writing

III

The birth of Jesus Christ

A. Identify the above sources and write your answers in the table below.

Prehistory Historic Times

B. Which of the above events marks the beginning of historic times? Explain
your answer.

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C. Arrange the above events chronologically.

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D. To which calendar does Source III refer?

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3. Study the sources below and answer the following questions.

I II

Sumerian Writing Ancient Egyptian Writing

III IV

Ancient Indian Writing Ancient Chinese writing

A. Arrange the above writings in chronological order according to their date of

invention.
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B. The invention of writing marks the beginning of _________________

times.

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4. Study the source below and answer the following questions.

I lived in the prehistoric period. I only knew how to make fire

and stone tools.

A. In which Stone Age period did he live? Explain your answer.

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B. Do you think that he only knew how to do the two things described in the
extract?

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C. Do you think that the change described in the extract was slow or quick?
Explain your answer.

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5. Study the source below and answer the following questions.

According to the archaeological finds in Zhoukoudian（周口店）,

Peking Man lived in the New Stone Age. They knew how to farm,

hunt, keep animals and make a fire.

A. Is the above passage a correct description of Peking Man? Explain your
answer.
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B. How do historians study the Stone Age? What are the differences in studying
the Stone Age and historic times?
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6. Study the sources below and answer the following questions.
(i) (ii) (iii)

A. Arrange the events shown in the sources chronologically.

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B. Which two events shown in the sources have a direct cause-and-effect

relationship? Explain your answer.
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C. Which one of the events shown in the sources was more important? Explain
your answer.
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7. Study the source below and answer the following questions.

Give any two things people living in the periods (i) to (iii) learned to do.
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8. Study the sources below and answer the following questions.

Source I: A picture of tools found in the United States National Park.

Source II: Paintings found on a cave wall.

Source III: A statue of an early human being.

⬧ Lived around 500,000 BC

⬧ Discovered in Zhoukoudian near
Beijing, China

A. To which historical period did the tools in Source I belong? (1 mark)

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9. What is the name of those paintings shown in Source II? What was the aim
of the people making these arts in the period mentioned in Question A? (2
marks)
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10. Name the early human shown in Source III. How did he look like? (1+1
mark)
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11. Briefly describe the changes and developments throughout the periods you
mentioned in Question A with reference to the Sources and using your own
knowledge. (4 marks)
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9. Study the sources below and answer the following questions.

Source I: Pottery made in the New Stone Age.

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 Source II: Pictures showing life in the Old Stone Age (Left) and the New
Stone Age (Right).

Source III: Tools from the New Stone Age (left) and the Metal Age (right).

A. With reference to Source I, describe the relevant development in the New

Stone Age. (Hints: What did they learn to make? How were the things used?
How were the things made?) (2 marks)
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B. With reference to Source II, how was the life in the New Stone Age different
from life in the Old Stone Age? (3 marks)

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C. According to Source III, why were metal tools better than stone tools? (2
marks)
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D. What was the relationship between the discovery of metal and the ending of
the Stone Age? Explain your answer using your own knowledge. (4 marks)

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