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Unit 1 - Neolithic Revolution
Unit 1 - Neolithic Revolution
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Unit 1 - Neolithic Revolution
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1
What best defines Government?
Complex organization of people into specific roles to maintain order
A place where business is done
A set of moral laws
Where laws are drafted
2
Mesopotamia is along what river and modern region?
Nile and India
Yellow River
Nile and Shang
Tigris and Euphrates (land between two rivers) and modern day Iraq
3
The Indus Valley is along what river and modern region?
Ganges and Egypt
Ganges and India
Ganges and Europe
Ganges and China
4
What best defines Theocracy?
Soley just religion
Soley just government
A group of people who gather around an idol or person
Rule that has religion as part of its government
5
What best defines Social Structure?
People settling in one centralized place
Religion
People who are better at speaking than others
people organized in a civilization among specific categories
6
What river valley civilization is located in the map below (land between two rivers)?
Mesopotamia
Indus Valley
Europe
China
7
What best describes a Monarchy?
Monarch at the head of government and rule is passed from father to son
Just a religious ruler
A group of people who make choices
Three people who make choices
8
What best describes an archeologist?
Someone who handles remains from the past (teeth, bones, pottery)
Someone who lectures about the past
someone who writes about the past
Someone who hunts wild chickens
9
What is a primary source?
A first-hand account of a person that was there at the event
An important person
An important event
A second hand account of a person that was not there at the event
10
How do you think mummification in Egypt helped the modern world?
Helped understand society
Helped understand religion
Helped understand culture
Help understand the human body
11
How did farming transform early civilization?
More people flocked to citites
Nothing changed, just more food
People could do other activities (roles) for society to advance it
More fires could be made
12
What does the Ten Commandments and Hammarubi's Code have in common?
Both are a type of law (religious and legal)
both are eye for an eye
Both a made of gold
Both are biblical
13
Egypt is along what river and modern region?
Yellow and Europe
Yellow River and China
Nile/Northern Africa - Middle East
Tigris and Northern Africa
14
How has Hammurabi's Code influence today's world?
Ethical laws
A core religion formed around this code
The basis of most systems of law in the world
The basis for the bible
15
What answer best describes the Neolithic Revolution?
Early man began to build spears
Hunters and Gathers starting to grow food in fields
Early humans began to leave caves
Early man began to become nomadic
16
How did the Neolithic Revolution affect families?
Population could become larger and no need to hunt as much
More sickness
Burger King
More technology
17
What best defines a city in the ancient world?
Large amounts of people who gather in a single area to live
A area where people worhsiped God
A beach-front property in the rich part of Europe
A village after the Neolithic Revolution
18
How did the Neolithic Revolution change the role of woman in society?
They had to fish
Nothing changed
They had to hunt
They did not have to go hunting
19
Civilization started with the Neolithic Revolution?
False
True
20
What best describes a historian?
Someone who studies the migration pattern of animals
Someone who studies bone and artifacts
Someone who studies the language of other cultures
Someone who studies the past by using different primary/ secondary sources
21
What civilization created the first sytem of writing and sailboats?
Russia
Mesopotamia
Egypt
China
22
What did the Israelites/Hebrews contribute to religion that was different to those before them?
A code of instructions on how to take over other civilizations
A code of legal laws
How to build Noah's Ark
A code of ethical laws (ten commandments)
23
Egypt has what kind of government (from father to son)?
Monarchy
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
Catholic
24
China is along what river and modern region?
Yellow River and Asia
Ganes and Asia
Yellow River and Europe
Ganes and Asia
25
What best defines Religion (Historically)?
Social organization of people around a central figure or idol
God
The Internet
Large amounts of people who gather in a single area to live
26
What factors could potentially delay/stop expansion of early river valley civilizations?
Walls
Angry people
Weather
Natural borders (rivers/mountains)
27
Israelites/Hebrews are along what river and modern region?
Jordan River and Europe
Jordan River and Israel
Jordan River and Egypt
Jordan River and China
28
What best describes writing and art?
When people began to stay in one place and plant food.
When people just created art
free time to develop a way to record & make painting/stories
When people just created stories
29
The river valley of the Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, and the Indus were centers of civilization because...
They had deposits of copper
They had deposits of coal
They deposits of gold
They could easily be defended and fertile land for crops
30
What was a result of the Neolithic Revolution?
Man had more work
Man learned the secret of fire
Nothing chnaged
Man had more free time which led to advancements becasue of farming
31
What do Egypt and Mesopotamia have in common?
Food
Writing
Gold
Copper
32
What are essential traits of civilization?
Just cities
Cities, writing, art/architecture, religion, government, social structure
just art
just religion
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What was crucial for early civilization to exist?
Building campfires
Building weapons
Surplus (extra) food
Surplus (extra) people
