End of the Semester Exam

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

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

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

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

Which of these was in the sanctuary of a temple?

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

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

Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

Why were scribes important in Sumerian government?

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

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

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

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

How did people in the Paleolithic Age get their food?

People who study the past are most like...

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

Homo erectus was the first hominin to use...

What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

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

Hatshepsut was one of the first pharaohs who was

For what is Hammurabi best remembered?

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

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

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

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

Social scientists are scholars who study...

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

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

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

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

Useful vegetation along the Nile River included...

In what form did many farmers pay their taxes?

Why did the rivers flood in the spring?

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

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

Which phrase best describes the Eastern and Western Ghats?

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

Who built the giant temples of the pharaohs?

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

Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

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

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

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

A society has a stable food supply if...

The people of Sumer constructed moats to...

Who unified the Israelites into a single nation?

Why did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?

A paleoanthropologist specializes in the study of the...

Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was “dead” about the Dead Sea?

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

Which of these leaders of empires came first?