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What do political maps show?
Why were pyramids built?
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Why were pyramids built?
Tombs for the Pharaoh
Build it and take it right back down
See the landscape around them
Place all of the dead
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What do political maps show?
Population
Boundaries(names and features)
Elevation
Landforms
3
What is the time in history called BEFORE the invention of writing?
Neolithic
Historic
Paleolithic
Pre Historic
4
What do physical maps show?
Boundaries(names and features)
Landforms
Elevation
Population
5
Pax Romana
time of peace
time of war
time of leadership with Caesar
time when plebians had no rights
6
What famous black stone helped decipher the ancient Egyptians' writing system?
The Olive Stone
Sunset Rock
Rosetta Stone
Carter Rock
7
cycle of life death and rebirth
karma
daoism
Hinduism
samsara
8
What was the name of the writing system used in ancient Egypt?
Hieroglyphics
Braille
Sign Language
9
This religion traveled the silk road
Hinduism
Daoism
Judiasm
Buddhism
10
Where were the people from that wrote their business records & laws in cuneiform-first writing
Egypt
Greece
China
Sumer
11
What city-state were the Athenians fighting against in the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta
Nashville
Troy
Persia
12
The name of the pharaoh who built many statues and monuments of himself and had 100 children?
Moses
Ramses
Khufu
Menes
13
The wheel, sailboat, money, 60-minute hour, and plow were all created in what region?
Jerusalem
Mesopotamia
Nile
Sumer
14
What is the name for the first five books of the Hebrew bible?
Bill of Rights
Matthew & Mark
Torah
Ten Commandments
15
The belief in many gods is called what?
Monotheism
Multitheism
Polytheism
Diertheism
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Who came up with the first harsh code of law?
Hammarabi
Alexander the Great
Hippocrates
Caesar
17
The floods of the Nile leave behind...
grass
moss
reeds
silt
18
This philosophy involves the yin and yang
daoism
legalism
confucianism
19
The Hebrews were the first people to believe in one god. What was the name of their religion?
Naples
Christianity
Hinduism
Judaism
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disciples
military leaders
people who spread teachings
farmers
rulers
21
Government based on land owners and tenants
democracy
taxism
plebianism
feudal system
22
After Caesar is killed by the senate what starts (fighting)
Rome breaks apart
a king rules next
a time of peace
a civil war for power
23
Government where everyone gets a personal vote
representative democracy
dictatorship
direct democracy
monarchy
24
language of Islam
arabic
french
latin
greek
25
A craft person is known as
a lower classer
a Patrician
an artisan
an irrigation
26
What famous river flows through Egypt?
Nile
Mississippi
Tigris
Amazon
27
One person in power
representative democracy
anarchy
direct democracy
monarchy
28
What name was given to the people who wrote down the ideas of others?
Scribes
Nomad
Journalist
Scientist
29
Who was nicknamed the "Father of the Hebrews"?
Moses
Job
Abraham
Jesus
30
Which is not a pillar of Islam
travel to Mecca
give alms to the poor
Ramadan
pray 2 times a day
31
What is the rich farmland called that extended in a curved shape from rivers to Mediterranean?
Delta
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Sumer
32
What was the name of the first Emperor of Rome
Augustus
Divitacus
Julius Caesar
Mark Anthony
33
What is a nomad?
Noble Servant
Disciple
A person with no permanent home
Political Leader
34
Why did the ancient Egyptians mummify their dead?
eat them later
keep the bodies from smelling
preserve for the next life
use the bones for tools later
35
foreign soldiers for hire
plebeians
founders
mercenaries
disciples
36
The way you live where good comes back to you
samsara
Polytheism
karma
Brahma
37
The knowledge, beliefs, values, and customs of a group of people is part of their ______.
Religion
Civilization
Home Life
Culture
38
What was the name of the pharaoh who was buried in the Great Pyramid of Giza
Ramses
Khufu
Cleopatra
Menes
39
Emperor Qin hated this philosophy
confucianism
legalism
daoism
40
What type of historian studies artifacts to help understand the culture of a group of people?
Divitaologist
Historian
Archaeologist
Geographer
41
a hill above a greek city
forum
Hippocrates
acropolis
Salamis
42
Rule by many
Oligarchy
Tyrant
Representative Democracy
Monarchy
43
Another name for mummification
Enrich
Embalm
Fritoir
Natron
44
What is the name for the area that develops where a river meets the ocean and drops "silt"?
Delta
Peninsula
Strait
Isthmus
45
Who led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and across the Red Sea?
Job
Moses
Jesus
Abraham
46
Exit from Egypt led by Moses
Passover
great escape
Exodus
Triscafora
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I create the universe again and again in Hinduism
Ganesha
Samsara
Caste system
Brahma
