Social Studies Review

Question 1

What is the main purpose of this map?

Accepted Answer

river valley civilizations

Question 2

How did the agricultural revolution have a positive impact on societies?

Accepted Answer

People didn't have to spend so much time focusing on farming

Question 3

Which statement is true about Africa?

Accepted Answer

Its geography makes travel difficult

Question 4

Why was Hammurabi's code an important contribution to ancient civilization?

Accepted Answer

Everyone had written access to the laws

Question 5

Which of the following groups was at the bottom of the early social class structures?

Accepted Answer

enslaved People

Question 6

What kind of animal does this painting appear to represent?

Accepted Answer

wolly mamoth

Question 7

What physical feature is most responsible for allowing a population to settle in Africa?

Accepted Answer

rivers and water

Question 8

The line that divides the Earth into eastern and western halves is called the

Accepted Answer

Prime Meridian

Question 9

Which of the following is true about the social pyramid?

Accepted Answer

The social structure was a hierarchy

Question 10

These advancements from _______________ included cuneiform, the wheel, bronze and irrigation

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 11

Longitude lines run from north to south

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Which of the following developed after the paleolithic age?

Accepted Answer

farming

Question 13

What advances allowed early humans to go from Paleolithic Age to Neolithic Age?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 14

Paleolithic people were the first to create which tool.

Accepted Answer

Sticks, stones and tree branches

Question 15

What major changes took place during the Paleolithic Age?

Accepted Answer

People learned to use fire to survive in cold environments

Question 16

What is true about ALL climate regions?

Accepted Answer

same type of vegetation, temperature and precipitation

Question 17

What form of writing is this

Accepted Answer

Cuneiform

Question 18

Why was the Neolithic Revolution considered to be the most important turning point in history?

Accepted Answer

Domestication of plants and animals established communities

Question 19

Africa is mostly desert and Savannah

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Nomads are people who move from place to place in search of food and resources

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 20