Sem Review

The Sumerians first usedtheir method of writing to create stories and poems.

The invention of thealphabet changed the purposes for which written language was used.

Sumerian women could be important religious leaders.

Mountains, valleys, and plains are all landforms.

Scholars do not know whyHarappan civilization ended.

Asoka gave up his throne when he converted to Buddhism.

Scientists are not exactly sure when or where the first modernhumans lived.

Over time, theinterpretations of historians stay about the same.

Egypt was called the gift of the Nile because the Nile neverflooded the land around it.

People in the ancient worldbuilt huge temples and discovered planets

Some farmers in ancientNubia were able to become rich.

The Zhou legend of the king’s warning fires tells about a wiseleader.

The Egyptians builtpyramids for all people who died.

During her reign, Queen Hatshepsut destroyed the monuments herfather had built.

During the Mesolithic Era, people settled in new lands.

Early people believed ingods such as the thunder god.

The Mauryan Empire had anadvanced system of government.

Phoenicia became powerfulbecause its land was rich in resources.

History is more importantfor individuals than it is for groups.

The amount of landcontrolled by each city-state depended on its population.

Military technologyadvanced in the Shang period.

Egypt’s geography kept itisolated from other cultures.

Historians who study how people lived their lives are interestedin a people’s culture.

Land ownership was an important part of Zhou politics.

Delayed migration intonorthern Asia was due to low ocean levels.

Aryan society was verysimilar to Harappan society.

Humans learned how to make fire during the Neolithic Age.

Women made importantcontributions to the Vedic texts.

Being a scribe in Sumer wasa way to move up in social class.

Hunters and gatherers werepeople who gathered and ate only fruit, seeds and nuts.

Weather and climate are thesame.

The highest mountains inthe world separate India from Africa.

The Buddha’s teachings wereinfluenced by other religions.

The reason for the AssyrianEmpire’s success was its strong army.

About 5,000 years ago,people created writing

A famous saying warns usthat those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it.

Religion in India was verydifferent from the ideas of other cultures.

Despite many improvements,people resented the Qin government.

A person’s job was animportant part of the caste system.

One way prehistoric peopleadapted to their environment was to create tools to process food.

The ice ages led to people migrating to all parts of the world.

A court document is anexample of a secondary source.

A region’s main roads are related to its physical features.

The Qin built the first sections of the Great Wall.

Another name for thePaleolithic Era is the New Stone Age.

Irrigation made farmers in Mesopotamia more productive.