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1
Who established the worlds first empire?
Sidhartha Gutama
Sargon
Nebuchadnezzar
The Babylonians
2
What was the name of the people of the first civilization of Mesopotamia?
The Harappans
The Romans
Monsoonians
The Sumerians
3
Reincarnation is the belief that
when you die your soul is reborn into another body
when you die there is nothing
when you die you go to heaven
when you die you got to the underworld
4
The Egyptians believed that when they died their heart would be weighted against a coke bottle
True
False
5
Hinduism and Buddhism originated in
India
China
Spain
Africa
6
What are the four river valley civilizations
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Indus Valley
Nile, Tigris- Euphrates, Huang He, Mississippi
Columbia, Memphis, East Orange, Indianapolis
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Cairo, Beijing
7
Egyptian Pharaoh's were considered to be related to their sun god
True
False
8
People in the caste system could marry whoever they wanted
false
true
9
Which ancient civilization invented cotton clothes
Mesopotamia
China
egypt
Indus Valley
10
What were large pyramid shaped temple towers called?
Daggers
Monuments
Crowns
Ziggurat
11
What was the name of the form of writing that was developed in Mesopotamia?
Hieroglyphics
Hebrew
Cuneiform
Latin
12
What were the two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia?
Zagros and Euphrates rivers
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mediterranean and Black rivers
Tigris and Red rivers
13
When a famine hit the Jewish people, they traveled to ____ in search of food
mesopotamia
India
Egypt
China
14
The yellow river got its name from
the yellow silt in the water
the corn that it was used to grow
its not called the yellow river
the joy it brought the chinese
15
This is the Mesopotamian city that Abraham is from
Urr
Cairo
Babylon
Lexington
16
What form of writing did the ancient Chinese have
rainbow fluffy pants icecream
Cuneiform
Characters/Calligraphy
Sanskirt
17
There is evidence to support some of the 12 plagues occurring
True
False
18
_____ released 12 plagues on Egypt in order to help free the Jewish people
Issac
Adam
Moses
Abraham
19
What was another name for Mesopotamia?
Taurus land
The land between the rivers
Tigris land
The Zagros land
20
____is the process of removing the organs except for the heart, embalming the body, wrapping it
murder
astronomy
early medicine
mummification
21
A counting system was created in Mesopotamia in order to
Keep track of trade
keep track of time
make cooking easier
keep track of the days of the week
22
What was the name of the person that created a code of laws?
Hammurabi
Confusious
Zeus
Sargon
23
Siddhartha Gautama is
a prince who ruled with fear
a prince who married his cousin
a prince who gave up his family to become enlightened
24
Hieroglyphics were used by
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
25
Through Mummification, the Egyptians learned
how organs functioned
how to make people live forever
how to reset dislocated joints and mend broken bones
how important water was for the body
26
The Huang He is closely associated with which place
mesopotamia
India
Japan
China
27
Mandate of heaven is the Chinese belief that the right to rule comes from god
true
false
28
Confucianism focused on 5 relationships and how people should be good to each other
True
False
29
Who invented the wheel?
India
Egypt
China
Mesopotamia
30
Babylon was home to which wonder of the world
pyramid of giza
sphinx
The hanging gardens of Babylons
light house of Alexandria
31
Why do we know very little about the Indus valley civilization
They didn't write
all their writing was destroyed in a fire
They lived a long time ago so no one cares
We don't understand their writing
32
What continent was Mesopotamia located on?
Africa
Asia
United States
North America
33
The fertile crescent includes
China and Egypt
Mespotamia and Egypt
India and mesopotamia
Mesopotamia and china
34
The yellow river is known as china's sorrow because
it a river that makes people sad
it brings misery to all who drink its waters
many people have gotten lost trying to cross it
when it floods it kills countless people.
35
When people died building the great wall, they were
buried inside the wall
not buried
carried back to your families
buried next to the wall
36
The first paper was made out of
grass
trees
leaves
papyrus reeds
37
Dharma is
when you are bad bad things will happen to you
I aint ever heard of that
Your life's purpose
a fungus
38
The Mesopotamian created studied astronomy and
believed the earth revolved around the sun
named the planets and days of the week
were the first to land on the moon
39
___ invented gunpowder, paper making techniques, printing, a compass,
India
China
Spain
The United States
40
Mesopotamia and Egypt are not important to Christianity and Judaism
True
False
41
____ Kept the Jewish people as slaves before Moses freed them
China
America
Africa
Egypt
42
Egyptian leaders are known as
Pharaohs
Kings
Emperors
President
43
90% of egypt's population lives along the ____ River
Indus
Tigris and Euphrates
Huang He
Nile
44
The Egyptians believed that when you died
there was nothing afterwards
everything you were buried with came with you
45
Most of the land in china is arable
false
true
46
What is the epic of gilgamesh
the world's oldest story
a type of food
a type of seasoning
the world's longest story