End of the Semester Exam

Why were scribes important in Sumerian government?

What change began the Neolithic Age, about 8000 B.C.E.?

An object made or used by people in the past is called...

Useful vegetation along the Nile River included...

How did the desert help the people of Egypt and Kush?

Why did the rivers flood in the spring?

The Sumerian civilization had a social structure with different social levels and jobs. A social structure is...

Which of these was part of the topography of ancient Egypt?

What was “dead” about the Dead Sea?

How was the legal system of Babylon more advanced than that of other societies at that time?

Who unified the Israelites into a single nation?

Which question about the past does cave art most help to answer?

Farmers in the Deccan Plateau use the iron-rich black soil principally to raise...

What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was...

Homo erectus was the first hominin to use...

How did people in the Paleolithic Age get their food?

Which of these leaders of empires came first?

Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

Why did people in the Neolithic Age live together in larger groups, compared with earlier times?

Hatshepsut was one of the first pharaohs who was

Which of the following parts of India has the most fertile farmland?

Social scientists are scholars who study...

Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

Why did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?

Why is King Tut one of the most well-known pharaohs?

For what is Hammurabi best remembered?

Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from

Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of many early settlements?

Scientists think the reason why ancient artists made paint by mixing different minerals with different powders was...

What is one characteristic for which Egypt’s Middle Kingdom is especially famous?

The people of Sumer constructed moats to...

How did the Leakey's discover the Homo habilis (Handy Man) hominin group?

Records of the goods people exchanged were made on...

The lower Indus River (the part nearer the sea) flows through what is now the country of...

What is the evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wood structures (scaffolding) to stand on?

Which statement about Homo habilis (Handy Man) describes a capability that helped their group survive?

Who conquered the land of the Israelites and took many Israelites to Babylon as captives?

Why were some people in parts of Canaan herders rather than farmers?

Because one physical feature was so vital to ancient settlers of Egypt and Kush, most of their settlements were...

It was built from more than 2 million stone blocks. It had tunnels inside. What was it?

What was one of the few ways that a boy from a peasant family could rise to a higher social class?

Which of these was in the sanctuary of a temple?

Which phrase best describes the Eastern and Western Ghats?

People who study the past are most like...

In what form did many farmers pay their taxes?

Of these four groups, which one had the lowest social status?

Compared with any other pharaoh in history, Ramses II produced more

How are the Indus and Ganges rivers similar to the Nile River in Egypt?

Who built the giant temples of the pharaohs?

Which invention made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots?

A paleoanthropologist specializes in the study of the...

Which period is often called the Golden Age, a time when Egypt had reached the height of its power?

If ancient paintings were found in a cave, which of these questions would be the hardest to answer?

A society has a stable food supply if...

What was one method Khufu used to ensure that his power would be accepted?

A problem that all four Mesopotamian empires had was difficulty in...

What was the greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to raise plants and animals.