End of the Semester Exam

What was “dead” about the Dead Sea?

Why is King Tut one of the most well-known pharaohs?

Which invention made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots?

Social scientists are scholars who study...

What was one of the few ways that a boy from a peasant family could rise to a higher social class?

Why did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?

The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was...

Useful vegetation along the Nile River included...

Which statement about Homo habilis (Handy Man) describes a capability that helped their group survive?

What is the evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wood structures (scaffolding) to stand on?

How did the Leakey's discover the Homo habilis (Handy Man) hominin group?

Compared with any other pharaoh in history, Ramses II produced more

Hatshepsut was one of the first pharaohs who was

The Sumerian civilization had a social structure with different social levels and jobs. A social structure is...

How did people in the Paleolithic Age get their food?

Who unified the Israelites into a single nation?

What is one characteristic for which Egypt’s Middle Kingdom is especially famous?

Scientists think the reason why ancient artists made paint by mixing different minerals with different powders was...

Which question about the past does cave art most help to answer?

What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

Why did the rivers flood in the spring?

Why were scribes important in Sumerian government?

Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

A paleoanthropologist specializes in the study of the...

What change began the Neolithic Age, about 8000 B.C.E.?

Why did people in the Neolithic Age live together in larger groups, compared with earlier times?

It was built from more than 2 million stone blocks. It had tunnels inside. What was it?

Which of these was in the sanctuary of a temple?

If ancient paintings were found in a cave, which of these questions would be the hardest to answer?

Who conquered the land of the Israelites and took many Israelites to Babylon as captives?

A society has a stable food supply if...

The people of Sumer constructed moats to...

Homo erectus was the first hominin to use...

The lower Indus River (the part nearer the sea) flows through what is now the country of...

For what is Hammurabi best remembered?

Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of many early settlements?

Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from

How was the legal system of Babylon more advanced than that of other societies at that time?

Which of the following parts of India has the most fertile farmland?

A problem that all four Mesopotamian empires had was difficulty in...

Which phrase best describes the Eastern and Western Ghats?

Which of these leaders of empires came first?

How are the Indus and Ganges rivers similar to the Nile River in Egypt?

Farmers in the Deccan Plateau use the iron-rich black soil principally to raise...

Of these four groups, which one had the lowest social status?

What was the greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to raise plants and animals.

Records of the goods people exchanged were made on...

People who study the past are most like...

What was one method Khufu used to ensure that his power would be accepted?

How did the desert help the people of Egypt and Kush?

Which of these was part of the topography of ancient Egypt?

Which period is often called the Golden Age, a time when Egypt had reached the height of its power?

Because one physical feature was so vital to ancient settlers of Egypt and Kush, most of their settlements were...

In what form did many farmers pay their taxes?

Why were some people in parts of Canaan herders rather than farmers?

Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

Who built the giant temples of the pharaohs?

An object made or used by people in the past is called...