stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Unit 2 - Ancient River Valley Civilizations Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Unit 2 - Ancient River Valley Civilizations
Unit 2 - Ancient River Valley Civilizations
52 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
151 plays
Imported from external platform
Flashcards
52 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
52
Answers
1
When a king dies and the power is passed to his son, it is called
Dynastic Power
Empire
Kingdom
Heriditary Power
2
At the top of the ancient Egyptian social class pyramid was _________________.
the nobles
the pharoah
the unskilled workers
the President
3
The ___alphabet is the oldest known alphabet.
Phoenecian
Hebrew
Egyptian
Aramaic
4
What sea bordered Phoenicia
Red Sea
Mediterranean
Nile River
Black Sea
5
Who helped free the Jews from slavery in Egypt?
Moses
Abraham
David
Aaron
6
What are some of the characteristics of a civilization?
Religon, K-pop, Cities, Government
Food, Religion, Money, Art
Technology, Food, Government, Music
Religion, Job specialization, Cities, Government
7
What was the relationship between trade and the spread of the Phoenecian alphabet?
Trade increased where the Phoenician alphbet was not used.
Phoenicians traded knowledge of their alphabet for gold.
They only traded with people who could write in Phoenician.
The Phoenician alphabet spread along their trade routes.
8
Where is the Nile River?
Asia
Europe
South America
Africa
9
A "shaduf" was used in ancient Egypt to?
Boil water
Wash clothing
Collect water
Attack neighboring villages
10
How often did the Nile River flood?
Every week
Twice a year
Once a year
At christmas
11
Who controlled Ancient Egypt?
Emperor
A God/Goddess
A Pharaoh
A king
12
What Religion did the Hebrews follow?
Hebrewism
Christianity
Judaism
Buddaism
13
What was the name of the great city in Mesopotamia?
Baghdad
Babylon
Barcelona
Etenburogh
14
How did Mesopotamia keep records?
Word of mouth
Stories and fables
Cuneiform
Religious artifacts
15
What is a civilization?
A civilization is a permanent settlement.
A civilization has a lot of people.
A civilization is a place where animals live.
A civilization is a more advanced mammoth house.
16
Three of Mesopotamia's most important achievements were
wheel, plow, and sail
pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphics
wheel, calendar and mummies
plow, sail and bricks
17
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is between are the:
Nile and Amazon
Mississippi and Missouri
Tigris and Euphrates
Yellow and Yangtze
18
Which area marks the general location of ancient Phoenicia?
D
A
E
C
19
Who is considered the father of the Jewish people?
Soloman
Abraham
Moses
David
20
Which of these is an example of advanced technology in Mesopotamia?
Fire
Cave paintings
Irrigation systems
Stone tools
21
How did the econamy grow in Mesopotamia.
They got better goverment.
All of the above.
They got money
Travel and commerce.
22
What is the Diaspora?
the name of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
the defeat of the Jews by the Romans
the migration of Jews to places around the world
the buildings in which Jews gathered to worship
23
The Nile River holds what distinction?
The only freshwater river in the world
The widest river in the world
The longest river in the world
the most dangerous river in the world
24
What did Sumerians write on?
Dry clay tablets
Paper
Wet clay tablets
Reeds
25
Mesopotamia is known as the
World's First Civilization
World's First Religion
World's inventors of Farming
World's First Humans
26
The people of Mesopotamia were:
Monotheistic
Nontheistic
Agnostic
Polytheistic
27
Who is the ruler in a theocracy?
president
preist
dictator
monarch
28
Sumerians learned to control their rivers by...
Asking the rivers nicely
Creating irrigation systems
Creating irradiating systems
Creating irritation systems
29
Ancient Sumerians believed that the gods could control
disease
all of these
floods
droughts
30
A city-state is a city that operates like an independent
________________________.
agent
business
person
country
31
What is Mesopotamia?
a fertile valley between the Caucasus and Ural mountains
a desert city in Tibet
a desert city in Egypt
a fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
32
What is unique about the Nile River?
It flows West
It flows East
It flows South
It flows North
33
what is the most famous pyramid?
pyramid Khafre
pyramid Khufa
pyramid of Giza
pyramid Menkaure
34
What was Hammurabi's Code?
A set of 143 rules about proper manners and etiquette
A letter written by Hammurabi to the people of Mesopotamia
A series of 282 laws to create order in Mesopotamian society
An unbreakable cypher to send messages in secret code
35
Of the following choices listed in Mesopotamian social structure, which was the largest group?
Warriors
Farmers
Artisans
Scribes
36
Where is present-day Mesopotamia?
Syria
Iran
India
Iraq
37
what was the purpose of a zigguraut?
it was a place for all the gods to hangout
it was a place to worship god
it was a place in China
it was a place where you put the tombs of dead phaorohs.
38
People within Ancient Egypt were
Monotheistic
Godless
Jewish
Polytheistic
39
Which is not one of 5 characteristics of a complex civilization?
Record keeping
Advanced technology
Advanced cities
Nomadic lifestyle
40
The writing of Ancient Egypt was called
hirographics
English
Arabic
Hieroglyphics
41
Where was Ancient Egypt located?
Northern Europe
Eastern Africa
Northern Africa
Southern Asia
42
Mesopotamia is part of the:
Fertile Crescent
Farmable Circle
Silty Rectangle
Agricultural Croissant
43
Why did Phoenicia become so powerful?
beautiful gardens
rich land
many inventions
trade
44
Mesopotamia means
Land of Many Gods
Land Under the Mountains
Land of Fertile Soil
Land Between Two Rivers
45
When was Israel at its most rich and powerful time
King David’s time
Jesus’s time
King Solomons time
Moses time
46
Hammurabi was best known for his...
Controlling the water of the Euphrates Reiver.
Sandboarding.
Law Code.
Controlling Mesopotamia.
47
Where did the Hebrews settle?
Egypt
Anatolia
Syria
Palestine
48
Soldiers were at the bottom on the Egyptian Social Hierarchy Pyramid
True
False
49
The people at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Mesopotamia were
priests
fishermen
slaves
merchants
50
What is the holy book of the Jews?
Quran
Torah
Bible
Ten Commandments
51
In Ancient Egypt, a dynasty was?
The New England Patriots
A well-respected ruler
A line of rulers from one family
A brutish warrior who protected the king
52
The Egyptian scribes wrote on
Stone
Papyrus
Bark
Animal Hide
