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RVC 1: Mesopotamia and Egypt
RVC 1: Mesopotamia and Egypt
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Ancient Mesopotamia (Sumer, Phoenicia and the Hebrews) and Egypt
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What is Hammurabi known for?
Law Code
Building Temples
Military Conquest
Increasing Trade
2
What is this writing called?
Cuneiform
Cave Art
Pictographs
Hieroglyphics
3
What are kings of Egypt called?
Emperor
Pharaoh
Princes
Caesar
4
What are pyramids used for in Ancient Egypt?
Protection
Tomb
Temple
5
Egyptian religion was
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
6
The Phoenicians were expert...
Farmers
Architects
Teachers
Shipbuilders
7
Government having both Religious and Political power is known as
Theocracy
Anarchy
Democracy
Monopoly
8
What people were located South of Egypt and borrowed many ideas from the Egyptians?
China
India
Mesopotamia
Nubia
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What is this writing from Egypt called?
Cuneiform
Alphabet
Ideogram
Hieroglyphics
10
Where were the Hebrew people enslaved?
Persia
Egypt
Spain
Rome
11
What direction does the Nile River flow?
East
South
North
West
12
The Egyptian God of the Dead is
Osiris
Isis
Ra
Inubus
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Most people in the ancient world practiced what type of religion?
Monotheism
Polytheism
14
The FIRST written language was
Greek Alphabet
Cuneiform
Ideograms
Hieroglyphics
15
Who was known for bringing the 10 Commandments to the Hebrew people?
Moses
Abraham
Jesus
Joshua
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Who is the Egyptian Sun God?
Ra
Isis
Horus
Osiris
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Egypt depends on what river?
Indus
Nile
Tigris
Euphrates
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All of the following are true about the first civilizations EXCEPT
Hereditary rulers
No Slavery
Written Law Codes
They began as City States
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What were the first metal weapons made of?
Bronze
Steel
Gold
Iron
20
The Phoenicians traded along which waterway?
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Atlantic Ocean
21
What sea does the Nile river empty into?
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Caspian Sea
22
The Holy Book of the Jews is the
Koran
Twilight
Torah
The New Testament
23
The "father" of the Hebrew people was...
Moses
Joshua
Jacob
Abraham
24
The rivers where the first civilizations began were the Tigris and
Euphrates
Nile
Indus
Seine
25
What is a covenant?
A speech given by a religious leader
A declaration of war
A promise made by 2 people
A building
26
What type of writing did the Phoenicians develop?
Cursive
Cuneiform
Indeographs
Alphabet
27
What Egyptian God is the ideal wife and mother?
Horus
Isis
Ra
Osiris
28
Where did the first permanent settlements appear during the Neolithic Era?
Nile River
Mesopotamia
Nubia
England
29
Ancient Civilizations had Specialized Workers
False
True
30
The "Land Between Two Rivers" in the Fertile Crescent was
Anatolia
Mesopotamia
Aleppo
Egypt
31
What does Monotheism mean?
One God
Many Gods
No Gods
32
Egypt is divided into what two regions?
North and South
Old and Newer
Upper and Lower
Eastern and Western
33
All of the following are economic patterns of early civilizations EXCEPT
Metal Tools
agricultural surplus
Increased trade
No rigid class system
34
What do we call this process used by the Egyptians for the dead?
Mummification
Cremation
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What is this structure in Mesopotamia called
Synagoge
Stone Henge
Ziggurat
Pyramid
