What is a city-state?

Independent city with government

What are the 4 river civilizations we studied?

Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India

What does GRAPES stand for?

Geography, Religion, Achievements, politics, economy, social structure

What are the Greek influences?

Theatre, Arts, Dramas, Architecture

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2025 EOT Ancient Civilizations review

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Test your knowledge on ancient civilizations with questions about key figures, inventions, and historical events. From Mesopotamia to the Aztecs, challenge yourself with this quiz!

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1
What are the characteristics of a civilization?
PEARS
PLUMS
GRAPES
APPLES
2
What is a city-state?
Independent city with government
A type of country
A large empire
A rural area
3
What does Before Christ refer to?
CE
B.C.
A.D.
4
What are the 4 river civilizations we studied?
Mesopotamian, Africa, Antarctica, Australia
Egyptian, Nile, Himalayas, Lorean
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India
Indian, Japanese, Swedish, Norse
5
What allowed humans to cross to North America?
A Bridge Too Far
Brooklyn Bridge
Bering Land Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge
6
Who invented zero?
Chinese
Ancient Indians
Romans
Greeks
7
Where were the Aztecs located?
up in Mexico
Canada
Australia
Antarctica
8
What describes nomadic tribes that traveled for food?
Search & Destroyers
Warrior Monks
family farmers
Hunter-gathers
9
Who made agriculture and domesticated animals?
Mongol Empire
Machiavelli
Neolithic Revolution
Adam & Eve
10
Who was the head of Egypt and considered a god?
Amilianna Torrini
Pharaohs
Great wall of China
Hammurabi's Code
11
Which two rivers are in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Amazon and Nile
Yangtze and Yellow
Ganges and Indus
12
Who crossed the Bering Strait to the Americas?
Paper Tigers
Russian Traders
Early Americans
late Europeans
13
What export of China led to the Silk Road?
Soy Sauce
Silk
Sugar Cane
Kites
14
Who was the famous European traveler who went to Asia?
Billie Eillish
Margaret Thatcher
Billy Mays
Marco Polo
15
What is known as the cradle of civilization?
Ancient Indians
Great wall of China
Fertile Crescent
A.D.
16
What was the first written language?
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Latin
Greek
17
What was the job of scribes?
Write records
take out the trash
make laws
collect taxes
18
Who united Rome and was assassinated by senators?
a homeless guy on the Silk Road
Julius Caesar
some random Spartans
Hans Ferdinand
19
Which civilization is known as the cradle of civilization?
A.D.
Mesopotamia
Great Wall of China
Ancient Indians
20
What is a period of 10 years called?
Decade
Eras
Eons
milleniums
21
What were the poor people of Rome called?
Heroes
Pharaohs
Plebian
Broke
22
What goes from left to right (oldest to most recent)?
Aqueducts
Timelines
Hebrew text
Calculator
23
Who were the great mathematicians that invented zero?
Ancient Eskimos
Ancient Indians
Ancient Koreans
Marco Polo
24
What is information from someone else or from a person not directly involved in the event?
News sources
Primary Sources
editorials
Secondary sources
25
What is an independent city with its own government called?
Villa
continent
country
City-State
26
Who made silk?
Marco Polo
Silkworms
Grand Puba
Koreans
27
What carried water to cities?
the Ferryman
buckets
poor people
Aqueducts
28
Which group is known for their military focus?
Mongols
Aztecs
Spartans
Athenians
29
Where were the Incans located?
Chicago
Mongolia
British Columbia
down in Peru
30
What is information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person directly involved in the event?
Mesopotamia
Monotheistic
Primary Source
Aqueducts
31
What does GRAPES stand for?
Grapes of Wrath
Geography, Religion, Achievements, politics, economy, social structure
Greatness, Respect, Achievement
Government, Resources, Arts
32
What was the war between Greece and Carthage called?
World War I
Punic Wars
War of the Roses
World War II
33
What was the focus of the Spartans?
military strength
Arts & Entertainment
Futbol
34
Where can you find Roman entertainment?
AMC Theatres
Wembley Stadium
Colosseum
Mesopotamia
35
Terrain made the use of wheels impossible for which groups of people?
Catholics, Muslims & Hindus
South Africans
Romans, Greeks, Latins
Inca, Aztec, Maya
36
What is a period of 100 years called?
Era
google
Century
epoch
37
Who was assassinated by senators?
Marcus Aurelius
Augustus Caesar
Nero
Julius Caesar
38
What does Anno Domini (in the year of our lord) refer to?
After Death
A.D.
Another Day
BCE
39
What is the term for 100 years?
Millennium
Century
Year
Decade
40
What are the Greek influences?
Theatre, Arts, Dramas, Architecture
Religion
Vacation Homes
My Big Greek Wedding
41
What connected Asia to Europe and brought culture?
I-95
the London Bridge
Bering Land Bridge
The Silk Road
42
What does Before Common Era refer to?
CE
That old time we talked about once
B.C.E.
AD
43
Who migrated from Africa to Asia?
Argentinians
Mayans
Early Humans
Swedes
44
What is the belief in one god (Judaism, Islam, Christianity) called?
Catholocism
Monotheistic
Paganism
Zoroastrianism
45
What did the Mayans create?
Cuneiform
365-day calendar
First written law
Algebra
46
What is a Greek city with its own government called?
Hemisphere
a hen house
a City- State
Continent
47
Which two brother founded Rome?
The Marx Brothers
Hulk Hogan & Macho Man
Romulus & Remus
Siskel & Ebert
48
What kept out invaders?
Great wall of China
some iron gates
Paleolithic picket fences
Polytheistic stories of ghosts
49
What region is the region in Northern Africa (Southern Egypt / Sudan) known as?
Phoenicia
Ethiopia
Ancient Kush
Wallachia
50
What were the floating gardens of the Aztecs called?
Flan con Azucar
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Whatchamacallits
Chinampas
51
Who created the 365-day calendar?
Persians
Mayans
Americans
Germans
52
What is the rigid Indian social structure called?
impossible ladder
level-up metrics
they don't have one / everyone is equal
Caste system
53
What empire was in Central Asia (Not China)?
Pax Romana
Mongols
Fertile Crescent
Early Humans
54
Where were the Mayans located?
Mayans in the Middle - Yucatan Peninsula
Russia
Nova Scotia
Brussels
55
Who gave us the alphabet (our alphabet)?
Chinese
Assyrians
Italians
Pheonicians
56
Whose geograhpy is characterized by mountainous and hard to farm land?
Egypt
Alluvial Plains
Greek geography
Canada
57
What were the floating gardens of the Aztecs called?
Terraces
Chinampas
Aqueducts
Hanging Gardens
58
Who was Rome's first emperor?
Augustus Caesar
Caesar Salad
King Joshua
Zarathustra
59
What is the capital of the Aztecs?
Rome
Machu Picchu
Tenochtitlan
Cuzco
60
What was the first written language in Mesopotamia?
Incans script
Neolithic pictograms
Cuneiform
Cyrillic
61
What is located between two rivers - Tigris and Euphrates?
Mesopotamia
Great Wall of China
Pyramids
a desert
62
What is known as the old stone age or hunter-gatherer period?
Aqueducts
Polytheistic
Century
Paleolithic
63
What was the first written law in Mesopotamia?
Hammurabi's Code
Pax Romana
Assyrian Steele
12 tables
64
What is the belief in many gods called?
Aztecs
Mayans
Silk Road
Polytheistic
65
What is a primary source?
A secondary source
Information from others
Created during an event
A type of timeline
66
What was the war between Athens and Sparta called?
Vietnam
Peloponnesian War
1,0000 years War
Persian Gulf War
67
True or false: The Bering Land Bridge connected Asia to Europe.
True
False
68
True or false: The Silk Road connected Asia to Africa.
False
True
69
What did the Phoenicians give us?
The alphabet
Cuneiform
Silk
Aqueducts
70
What was the capital of the Aztecs?
They never had one
Minneola
Aztexicoco
Tenochtitlan
71
What is a period of 1000 years called?
epoch
Eons
decade
Millenium
72
What does Common Era refer to?
C.E.
The day after Tomorrow
BCE
73
Who created algebra?
Nikolai Tesla
Einstein
Islamic mathematicians
Stephen Hawkins
74
What is the belief in many gods called?
Atheism
Agnosticism
Polytheism
Monotheism
75
True or false: Timelines go from right to left.
False
True

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