End of the Semester Exam

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

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

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

People who study the past are most like...

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

Who unified the Israelites into a single nation?

What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

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

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

How did people in the Paleolithic Age get their food?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hatshepsut was one of the first pharaohs who was

Which phrase best describes the Eastern and Western Ghats?

Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

Which of these leaders of empires came first?

Why did the rivers flood in the spring?

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

Useful vegetation along the Nile River included...

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

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

Why were scribes important in Sumerian government?

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

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

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

The people of Sumer constructed moats to...

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

Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from

A paleoanthropologist specializes in the study of the...

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

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

Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

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

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

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

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

Which of these was in the sanctuary of a temple?

For what is Hammurabi best remembered?

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

What was “dead” about the Dead Sea?

In what form did many farmers pay their taxes?

Homo erectus was the first hominin to use...

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

A society has a stable food supply if...

Social scientists are scholars who study...

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

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

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

Who built the giant temples of the pharaohs?

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

Why did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?

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

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