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WORLD HISTORY QUIZ

From Creation of Earth to 3000 BC

  1. When was the Planet Earth Formed?

  2. What is meant by Archean Eon?

  3. What is Eon?

  4. What are the 4 units of Geologic Time?

  5. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Archean Eon?

  6. Which Eon followed the Archean Eon?

  7. What is the time period of Proterozoic Eon?

  8. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Proterozoic Eon?

  9. Which Eon followed the ProterozoicEon?

  10. What is the time period of Phanerozoic Eon?

  11. Which are the three Eras of Phanerozoic Eon?

  12. What is the time period of Paleozoic Era?

  13. What are the six Periods of Paleozoic Era?

  14. What is the time period of Cambrian Period?

  15. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Cambrian Period?

  16. What is the time period of Ordovician Period?

  17. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Ordovician Period?

  18. What is the time period of Silurian  Period?

  19. What kind of life appeared on Earth during  Silurian  Period?

  20. What is the time period of Deronian Period?

  21. What kind of life appeared on Earth during  Deronian Period?

  22. Which Period followed the Deronian Period?

  23. Which are the two Epochs of the Carboniferous Period?

  24. What is the time period of Mississippian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period?

  25. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Mississippian Epoch?

  26. What is the time period of Pennsylvanian Epoch. of the Carboniferous Period?

  27. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Pennsylvanian Epoch.?

  28. What is the time period of Permian Period?

  29. What are the three Periods of Mesozoic Era?

  30. What is the time period of Triassic Period?

  31. What is the time period of Jurassic Period?

  32. What is the time period of Cretaceous Period?

  33. What kind of life appeared on Earth during  Triassic  Period?

  34. What kind of life appeared on Earth during  Jurassic Period?

  35. What kind of life appeared on Earth during  Cretaceous  Period?

  36. What is Primate?

  37. What are the two Periods of Cenozoic Era?

  38. What are the three Epochs of the Paleogene Period?

  39. What is the time period of Paleocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period?

  40. What is the time period of Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period?

  41. What is the time period of Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period?

  42. What are the four Epochs of the Neogene Period?

  43. What is the time period of Miocene Epoch of the Neogene Period?

  44. What is the time period of  Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period?

  45. What is the time period of Pleistocene Epoch of the Neogene Period?

  46. What is the time period of Holocene Epoch of the Neogene Period?

  47. What kind of life appeared on Earth during Miocene, Oligocene and Eocene Epochs.?

  48. During which Epoch of the Neogene period did human beings appear?

  49. When did the earliest Ice Age begin?

  50. What is the name of the most recent Ice Age?

  51. What is the time phase of the most recent Ice Age.

  52. What is Neogene Period?

  53. What is meant by the term Cenzoic Era?

  54. When did the first signs of bacteria and blue algae appear in oceans?

  55. So far how old are the oldest fossils found?

  56. How old are the earliest known hominid fossils and when and where these were found?

  57. In 1995 fossils named Autralopithecus anamensis, dated 4.2 million B.C. , were found in Lake Turkana. Where is this Lake?

  58. In 1974 fossils named Autralopithecus afarenis were found in Ethiopia. What is the nick name of these fossils?   

  59. First brain expansion was found in Homo habilis ( "Skillful Man" - believed to have used tools). To what phase Homo habilis belonged?

  60. "Upright Man" is believed to appear in 1.8 million B.C. What is the common name of "Upright Man"?

  61. Which continent is the original home of "Upright Man"?

  62. Which human ancestor had the brain size twice that of Australopithecine species?

  63. When did the "Upright Man"  leave his original home?

  64. In 100,000 B.C. first modern Homo Sapiens appear. Where?  

  65. Neanderthal man appeared in 70,000 B.C. What important discovery is associated to this human ancestor?

  66. When was Neanderthal man replaced by later groups of Homo Sapiens (like Cro-Magnon man etc)?

  67. When was the Cro-Magnon man replaced by later cultures?

  68. What is the time phase of the migrations across the Bering Straits into Americas?

  69. Where is Bering Strait? 

  70. When did the Semi-permanent agricultural settlements appear?

  71. What is the time phase of development of settlements into cities and the evolution of skills such as the wheel, pottery, and improved methods of cultivations in Mesopotamia and elsewhere?

  72. Which modern day places were in Mesopotamia?

  73. When were the pre-dynastic Egyptian cultures develop?

  74. When did the regular use of agriculture begin?

  75. Where did the earliest know civilization arise in 4500 - 4000 B.C. ?

  76. Which modern day areas correspond to the ancient country country Sumer?

  77. What is the earliest recorded date in the Egyptian calendar?

  78. When did the ancient Egyptians build their first Dam?

  79. When did the Jewish Calendar begin?   (Answer in B.C. years).

  80. When did the first phonetic writing appear?

  81. When did Sumerians develop a city-state civilization?

  82. When and by whom was copper used first time?

  83. When did the Egyptians start practicing Mummification and using Numeric Symbols.

  84. By 3000 B.C. the Western Europe was still Neolithic. What does the term Neolithic mean?   

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