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Review of Mesopotamia
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1
Why were hunter-gatherers most likely nomads who moved from place to place?
To visit family members
They had to move to find new food sources
They wanted to find new adventures
To avoid chicken pox
2
Which of the following is a possible artifact from prehistory?
An Arrowhead
A fossilized egg
The bible
A dinosaur leg bone
3
The goods and resources made and shipped by the Phoenicians to other lands are called
pizza
gold
diamonds
exports
4
Who was at the TOP of the Mesopotamian social hierarchy?
farmers
king
priests
skilled workers
5
The Persian Empire was divided in provinces for what purpose?
so it would be easier to manage using local leaders
So that each empire could be completely independent
so Darius didn't have to share power with priests anymore
to let people live close to the God they liked the best
6
Which of the following is NOT a change during the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?
Created permanent shelters and built farming communities
Humans began to domesticate plants and animals
Humans could now produce packaged food like wheat cereal
People cleared land to plant seeds and crops
7
What's the name for the mixture of soil and tiny rocks deposited by flooded rivers?
canal
silt
irrigation
cuneiform
8
Which of the following helped the development of cities?
Farming
Permanent Housing
Computers
Red and Blue
9
Which of the following was NOT an effect of roads connecting empires?
Allowedtrade to be faster
People could travel further to find important resources
Newideas and communications spread faster
Peopleput walls up around t cities so no one could get in
10
The earliest form of writing was developed for what purpose?
Send emails to other civilizations
To write Greek mythology
Record laws, write down prayers, and keep track of trade
Grade teacher's tests
11
Which of the following best describes the job of an anthropologist?
someone who studies the weather
Studying Human history
someone who studies fruit
studying documents
12
What does prehistory mean?
The class before this one
Before the history book was written
The time before writing was invented
A long time ago
13
In which Mesopotamian city-state was the alphabet invented?
Assyria
Babylon
Sumer
Phonecia
14
Which rivers are included in the Fertile Crescent? (Two possible answers.)
Tigris
Nile
Euphrates
Persian
15
Which of these did the Mesopotamians NOT invent?
wheel
alphabet
fire
bronze
16
Which of these happened first?
78 BCE
82 CE
238 BCE
194 CE
17
A civilization is?
Acommunity that has a king and queen
Acommunity with cities, government, and organized religion
Acommunity built on farming instead of hunting and gathering
Acommunity ruled by customs and a council to settle disputes
18
Mary Leakey's discovery helped us understand what?
Thefirst humans originated in Africa and used tools
Designedbi-cameral government systems
Thefirst humans built amazing structures like pyramids
Developedcomplex buildings to pray in
19
Which of these is not a way to study prehistory?
Studying fossils
Looking at artifacts
Reading about it
Looking at cave art
20
What does the image show?
epic
cuneiform
social hierarchy or social structure
Mesopotamia
21
Why was job specialization important to the growth of cities?
Now everyone had to be a farmer
Noone knew how to make weapons so rulers had to be dictators
People could focus on one skilled job
Social classes developed based on goverment skill
22
The goods and resources made and shipped by Phoenicians to other landsare called?
Exports
Ziggurats
Diamonds
Pickles
23
A revolution is?
A complete change in the way of thinking
A cool song
A spinning thing
A new trend in fashion
24
The first written language was called
Heiroglyphs
Cuneiform
Alphabet
Times New Roman
25
How did tools help the development of agriculture?
They allowed for easier hunting
made it so that distribution of paper was more widespread
Helped farmers produce food faster and in greater quantities
They made it so that people were finally able to use cars
26
What kind of technology was used by people of the Neolithic era
Bronze weapons
Fire for warmth and stone weapons
Pulley systems to move water
GPS for navigation
27
Which word means "land between the rivers"?
irrigation
canal
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
28
What's the name of the world's first written set of laws?
cuneiform
Hammurabi's Code
alphabet
epic
29
Cyrus the great was:
the president of the first secret society in Asia
a mythical person in an epic about good and bad
the person who invented the wheel
a leader of Persia who built a large standing army
30
Which of the following BEST describes the effect of domesticating plants and animals?
led to the birth of farming
Domestication allowed people to teach cows to make cheese
They made it so that people were finally able to use cars
the distribution of paper was more widespread
31
Darius created a common
currency
for the Persian empire and these gold coins were used to_____?
pay for the war debt after the Perisan empire fell
create a financial crisis
pay for goods and unify the Persian economy
pay the gods for good crops
32
In which city-state was the alphabet invented?
Sumer
Bablyon
Phoenecia
Assyria
33
What's the word to explain belief in MORE THAN ONE god?
monotheism
atheism
polytheism
monarch
34
Why were rivers useful to the people of the fertile crescent?
Transportation
Drinking water
Water for farming
All of the above
35
Why did agriculture aid the development of cities?
People no longer had to move around for food
Farmers swore allegience to the king
A and B
Predictable food source
36
Which of these is an example of a monarch?
king
servant
priest
farmer
