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8th Grade World History SGO REVIEW-MAPPS
8th Grade World History SGO REVIEW-MAPPS
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Pre/Post assessment for 8th graders
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1
Who was the Israelite king known for his wise sayings, or proverbs?
Sargon
Tutankhamen
Solomon
Nebuchadnezzar
2
Early humans spread to which continent first?
Europe
Asia
Australia
Africa
3
In
the History of Herodotus,
who did the Greeks kidnap?
Argive
Europe
Aea
Io
4
A system based on a shift of power from kings to nobles
feudalism
rule of law
constitution
cuneiform
5
A plan of government
dynasty
Constitution
rule of law
Stone Age
6
The first humans were
farmers
hunter-gatherers
artisans
scribes
7
A place where tombs for the pharaohs were cut into the rock walls
Valley of the Nile
Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Sun
Valley of the Spirits
8
Life in ancient Egypt depended heavily on the
balance of trade
Nile River
fish harvest
good will of the pharaoh
9
The Greeks wanted their art to reflect their ideals of
wealth and power
balance, reason, and moderation
peace and happiness
utility and friendliness
10
Using artificial means of bringing water to crops is called
irrigation
initiation
adulation
inflation
11
Which two scientists made advances in geometry?
Euclid and Pythagoras
Aristarchus and Hipparchus
Archimedes and Hippocrates
Hypatia and Pythagoras
12
Sumerian women had the rights to buy and sell property and
become rulers
write wills
go to school
run businesses
13
The __________ separate India from the rest of Asia
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
monsoons
Himalaya
castes
14
Government in which citizens vote to elect leaders
republic
dynasty
constitution
feudalism
15
What do Aristarchus and Eratosthenes have in common?
They both worked on physics
They both studied Earth.
They both studied the stars
They were both mathematicians
16
The Greek peninsula is
fertile
mountainous and dry
often flooded
flat
17
A family of rulers who pass power down through the family
republic
dynasty
Bantu migrations
cuneiform
18
Hammurabi's ideas for his legal code came from
taking dictation on Mt. Sinai
long sea voyages
the laws of the lands he conquered
trips to the desert
19
The mountain ranges of Italy
include the Appalachians
are not as rugged as those in Greece
cannot be crossed
isolated towns from each other
20
Which Greek scientist said the Earth is round?
Euclid
Hypatia
Eratosthenes
Pythagoras
21
Called this because people made their tools from stone during this time
dynasty
anthropologists
Bantu Migration
Stone Age
22
Idea that laws should apply equally to everyone
constitution
feudalism
cuneiform
rule of law
23
Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, lay between the
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Nile and Niger Rivers
Nile River and Red Sea
Rhine and Rhone Rivers
24
Twenty-five thousand years ago, humans moved in which direction across Asia?
southeast
northeast
west
south
25
The weekly day of worship and rest is called the
Sabbath
synagogue
weekend
Rabbi
26
Concept explained by Indian mathematicians
Dynasty
anthropologists
Infinity
republic
27
The king of _______ sent a herald into Greece to demand his daughter back.
Minos
Tyre
Aea
Crete
28
The Egyptians used this for baskets and for papermaking
jute
flax
gypsum
papyrus
29
The long era of peace that began with Augustus is called the
Praetorian Guard
Roman Empire
Second Triumvirate
Pax Romana
30
The world's longest river is the
Nile
Tigris
Niger
Amazon
31
The reason why all Africans share some common traditions
feudalism
Bantu migrations
infinity
anthropologists
32
The Jews who lived scattered around outside of Judah are called the
aurora
Diaspora
menorah
plethora
33
People who study how humans developed and how they relate to each other
Stone Age
Bantu migrations
feudalism
anthropologists
34
The Egyptians believed that the pharaoh was the son of
Bel
Re
Osiris
Isis
35
Wedge-shaped Sumerian writing
feudalism
dynasty
cuneiform
rule of law