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1
How many days were on the Egyptian Calendar?
365
12
364
180
2
Mesopotamia has unpredictable flooding.
True
False
3
Disobeying a law from the pharaoh meant disobeying a
cow
god
demon
ancestor
4
Which of the following had decentralized governments or city-states?
Indus River Valley
China
Mesopotamia
Egypt
5
What is basic political unit of the Sumerian civilization?
city-state
50 states
Egypt
city-place
6
Which action is most closely associated with the early Mesopotamian civilizations?
building floating gardens to grow corn
establishing representative democracies
developing a writing system using cuneiform
constructing Hindu temples
7
Which of these descriptions best fits the role of Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt?
Ruler, as result of winning a competition
Military General
God-king
Emperor
8
Another name for Mesopotamia is...
Yellow River Valley
Indus Valley
Fertile Crescent
Egypt
9
What is another name for the Neolithic Revolution?
Agricultural Revolution
Technological Revolution
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
10
What type of government did Egypt have?
Oligarcy
Theocracy
Democracy
Monarchy
11
Sumerians were
Polytheistic
Atheist
Agnostic
Monotheistic
12
Everyone in Egypt buried their dead.
False
True
13
Which of the following had centralized governments?
China
Egypt
Indus River Valley
Mesopotamia
14
Egypt is surrounded by what natural boundary?
Desert
Himalayan Mountains
Tundra
Ocean
15
Polytheistic means
many gods
one god
16
The activity displayed in this model could be used as evidence to argue that egyptians
lived in settled communities
practiced hunting
engaged in foraging
relied on slash-and-burn technology
17
What 2 rivers are found in Mesopotamia?
Yellow and Yangtze River
Tigris and Euphrates River
Nile and Yellow River
Tigris and Nile River
18
Monotheistic means
one god
many gods
19
All of these are technological advances of the Indus River Civ. that we still use today except?
City Planning
plumbing
Waste disposal
pyramids
20
Due to the lack of a Rosetta Stone, we are unable to decipher the ______________ writing/script
Chinese
hieroglyphics
Indus Valley
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