Social Studies FINAL Review

What characteristics make up a region?

Which of these statements best describes the Paleolithic Age?

Which sentence best describes education in Sparta?

Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from ______.

Important information for residents of river valley civilizations were recorded and preserved by local _______.

Life changed for early human beings during the Neolithic Revolution because they began to _________.

The Emperor of Qin ordered all Confucian books brought to the capital so that he could ____.

Which best describes POLYTHEISM?

When people or groups of people move from one place to another, they are ______.

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

The term "Golden Age" is often used to describe classical civilizations. Which statement below best describes it?

Scientists refer to the everyday objects and tools that are left behind by early people as ______.

One problem faced by leaders of the Roman Empire as it grew larger was ______.

Which of these men would most likely be hired for the Han bureaucracy?

During the Paleolithic Age, the tools used by human beings were made from ______.

Which statement about the Nile River is correct?

Hammurabi's Code was written to ______.

Who set up the Roman Republic?

When looking at time line, what do the letters B.C.E. stand for?

An important contribution of Greek culture was architecture. One reason the Greeks built temples was to ___.

Why did the plebeians want laws to be written?

Athens had a democratic system of government. Which statement describes the Athenian government?

Scientists who dig up and study human remains to piece together the story of the past are called ______.

The structures below show that the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia both _______.

What actions related to Laws, Money, Weights and Measures, and writing did the Emperor take to help unify China?

Which pair of physical features most likely had the greatest influence on the development of the Greek city-states?

The most important way early civilizations modified their environment was to provide for _____.

Structures like this were built throughout the Roman Empire. The main purpose of these structures was to _______.

How did the Han emperors keep civil servants from doing special favors for their friends?

Which of the following is true of the Emperor of Qin?

Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumerian Cuneiform, and Indus Valley Sanskrit are examples of _________.

Why are both the Roman Republic and the United States today considered republics?

Early human beings were ____________. This meant they moved from place to place rather than settling in one area.

PAX ROMANA refers to a period when the Roman Empire was _______.

A republic differs from a monarchy because in a republic ____.

Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform encourages the development of ________.

This scene from an ancient scroll shows the scholars being severly punished. Why did this happen?

Which statement best describes the geography of the Greek peninsula?

Which was a key teaching of Confucius?

The Mesopotamians built _____ to connect the rivers and streams found throughout the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley.

The Egyptians recorded details and scenes from daily life on the walls of temples and in books made from _____.

Which statement about life in Sparta is a fact rather than an opinion?

Which is the most accurate definition of a TYRANT?

Why did the ancient civilization develop in valleys or rivers such as the Nile, Indus, Tigris, and Euphrates?

Early farmers, unlike their hunting-gathering ancestors began to produce an oversupply or ________, of food.

Why were plebeians unhappy when the Roman Republic was first set up?