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AP World History review on the early history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
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The oldest Neolithic settlement made of numerous small houses built of sun-dried brick that backed on to one another
Catalhuyuk
Jericho
Banpo
Jerusalem
2
What is another name for the Old Stone Age or the time period in which humans started making tools out of stone?
Paleolithic
Pastoral
Egalitarian
Neolithic
3
What was the basis of the Code of Hammurabi?
Equality
Fairness
"Eye for an eye"
Absolute control
4
What was age of Egypt that was most known for literature and art?
Egyptian Empire
Middle Kingdom
Old Kingdom
New Kingdom
5
What was the first writing system?
Chinese Characters
Hieroglyphics
Linear A
Cuneiform
6
Who is your favorite cuneiform scholar?
Irving Finkel
Hammurabi
I didn't have time to look up others
7
Who were the Hykos that settled in Egypt?
Persian intellectuals
The Kushan empire's army
Nubian invaders
Horse riding invaders from Southwest Asia
8
The Akkadian leader who established the first empire to rule all of Mesopotamia was
Ashurbanipal
Hammurabi
Sargon
Senecherib
9
What was Egypt and Nubia known as?
"The Land of the Pharaohs"
"Gifts of the Nile"
"Treasures of the Nile"
"The Land to the West"
10
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A series of tales about a Egyptian king named Gligamesh
A series of tales about a Mesopotamian king named Gilgamesh
A series of tales about a Chinese king named Gligamesh
A series of tales about a Arabian king named Gligamesh
11
What place had to be completely relocated in the 1960s to avoid being submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser
Karnak Temple
Deir el-Bahri
Luxor Temple
Abu Simbel
12
Who was the leader of the Israelites when they branched off from the Hebrews?
Manu
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Moses
13
Who is the king that unified Egypt?
Cheops
Menes
Anubis
Khufu
14
What two rivers did Mesopotamia emerge from?
Indus and Nile River
There were no rivers
Yellow and Yangtze River
Tigris and Euphrates River
15
Who is the lord of the underworld and husband to Isis?
Anubis
Osiris
Set
Horus
16
Term meaning the development of agriculture and pastoralism in the early history of humanity.
Neolithic Revolution
Triassic Age
Paleolithic Revolution
Jurassic Age
17
The region of Mesopotamia lies in which present-day country?
Egpyt
Afghanistan
Iran
Iraq
18
The living pharoah in Egypt is an incarnation of which god that has a falcon head?
Horus
Ra
Set
Anubis
19
Which pharoah worshiped Aten exclusively? Some scholars interpret this as the first instance of monotheism
Akhenaten
Atenaten
Ramses I
Tutankhamen
20
What was the Old Kingdom of Egypt known for?
Literature and Art
Mummification, Pyramids, Hieroglyphics
Empire age
21
Which pyramid of Giza includes the sphinx?
Khafre
Abu Simbel
Menkaure
Khufu
22
Which civilization invented cuneiform writing?
Sumerians
Akkadians
Babylonians
Hittites
23
One of the first sets of unified law codes, "The code of Hammurabi" was the law of which empire?
Assyrians
Akkadians
Hittites
Babylonians
24
Who was an Egyptian queen whose tomb was hidden for many years?
Hatshepset
Queen of Sheba
Nefertiti
Cleopatra
25
Cleopatra lived closer to the advent of bitcoin than the Pyramids at Giza.
True
False
26
Two immediate outcomes of the Agriculture Revolution
Military warfare and scientific innovation
Long-distance maritime trade and Specialization of Labor
Patriarchy and Pastoralism
Belief in animism and end of forced labor
27
What famous cave has one of the longest sets of cave paintings?
Lille
Lyon
Lascaux
Luxeuil
28
Who is the god of the dead and embalming?
Isis
Anubis
Horus
Osiris
29
What buildings were dedicated to Priests/Gods in Mesopotamia?
Pyramids
Babel
Ziggarut
Stupas
30
What were the specializations of labor in Mesopotamia?
Pottery, Metallurgy, Textiles
Farming, Trading, Fishing
Writing, Priest(ess), Painting
Cattle-herding, wheat, sculptures
