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Why did priests play an important role in Sumerian city-states?
They were the oldest
They were the only people
they were the most educated people
only priests could communicate with the gods
2
UNITED BABYLONIAN EMPIRE BY PUBLISHING A SET OF LAWS KNOWN AS THE CODE
Nebuchadnezzar
Darius
Sargon
Hammurbai
3
Which of the following was an
NOT
accomplishment of Hammurabi
Code of Laws
King of Babylon
United the Persians
Invented the wheel
4
What is suggested to be the strength of the Egyptian civilizations?
Pyramids
Pharaohs
Ramses II
Nile River
5
The Nile River is the only river in the world that flows in this direction
East to West
South to North
West to South
North to South
6
an independent state that includes a city and surrounding territory.
City
Colony
Empire
City - State
7
person who mummified the body of a deceased person
Mummifier
Pharoah
Artisan
Embalmer
8
An area ruled by a distant country is called
Colony
State
Nation
Country
9
the practice of preserving the dead
Mummification
Merchant
Embalmer
Artisan
10
This is delivered from the flood waters of the Nile River
Soil
Monotheistic
Silt
Cataract
11
Sumer was located between the _____________ river and the
___________
river
Spring and Fall
Tigris and Nile
Tigris and Euphrates
Euphrates and Nile
12
This civilization was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Egyptians
Sumerians
13
The land in which the Sumerian civilization took up was called the
Sun Baked Desert
Fertile Crescent
Asia
North America
14
Waterfall of the Nile
Silt
Nile River
Cataract
Delta
15
In cuneiform, Sumerian scribes used what to represent words, sounds, or ideas?
Square Shaped Symbols
Voices
Wedge Shaped Symbols
Circular Shaped Symbols
16
The Phoenicians were called the “carriers of civilization“
False
True
17
system in which one set of goods or services is exchanged for another
Barter Economy
Money Economy
18
belief in more then one god
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
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Scattering of people from their homeland
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
Diaspora
Embalmer
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A state containing several countries or territories is called
City - State
Colony
Empire
Ally
21
Which was
NOT
1
st
accomplished by the Sumerians
Wheeled Vehicles
Calendar
Used Iron
Developed Cunieform
22
Ruling family
King
Empire
Dynasty
Kingdom
23
The Egyptian civilization was located on the __________ River
Nile
Tigris
Euphrates
Indus
24
Code of laws that emphasized strict laws and harsher punishments
Queen Hatshepsut's Rules
Code of Ramses II
Babylonian Law
Hammurabi's Code
25
BECAME SKILLED SAILORS AND TRADESMEN
Darius
Phoenicians
Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar
26
The largest group of people in the Babylonian Empire included
Farmers, Artisans, Slaves
Slaves, Nobles, Artisans
Farmers, Priests, Slaves
Artisans, Farmers, Priests
27
What was one thing the people of the Egyptian civilization looked forward to every year
Building the Pyramids
Flooding of the Tigris
Flooding of the Nile
Flooding of the Euphrates
28
Which city was originally a Phoenician colony?
Carthage
Italy
Egypt
Rome
29
In the Phoenician alphabet, symbols were used to represent
Letters
Numbers
Sounds
People
30
The main purpose of Hammurabi’s Code being written down was to
to show he could write
understand what will happen to you
figure what can get you killed
allow all people to see and know the laws
31
The following years are in the correct order: 1000BC 2500BC 2700BC 3000BC 34000BC 3650BC
False
True
32
INTRODUCED THE SKILL OF IRONWORKING TO THE REGION
Mesopotamians
Egyptians
Sumerians
Hammurabi
33
Pyramid or temple dedicated to chief god/goddess of ancient Sumerian city - state
Ziggurat
King Tut's Pyramid
Great Sphinx
Great Pyramid
34
system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for words, sounds, and ideas
Olde English
Sanskrit
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
35
Which are examples of how the Nile shaped ancient Egypt?
All of the Above
provided transportation
provided silt for farming
provided trade routes
36
The Egyptians and Sumerians were both Monotheistic
True
False
