What is the significance of the Fertile Cresent?

Location of first civilizations

Which of the following is a component of a civilization?

a common written language, job specialization

What does (A.D.) Anno Domini mean when referring to a year?

In the year of our Lord (in Latin)

What is the difference between prehistory and ancient history

there are no written records of prehistory

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Duplicate of Ancient Civilizations April 24 game 1

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This quiz is covering Ancient History and Civliatations, Mesopotamia, and Hebrews and Judaism #worldhistory

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1
What is the significance of the Fertile Cresent?
Site of 7 wonders of the world
Location birth of Judaism
Location of first human community
Location of first civilizations
2
Which was not an early Mesopotamian civilization?
Babylon
Akkad
Assyria
Persia
3
Which of the following is a component of a civilization?
hunting in groups
a common written language, job specialization
using similar forms of social media, i.e. snapface & fbook
the use of fire
4
Between which rivers in the Fertile Cresent located?
Indus and Nile
Nile and Euphrates
The Yellow and Indus
Tigris and Euphrates
5
What does B.C. mean?
Before Carthage
Before Cable
before Caesar
Before Christ
6
What does (A.D.) Anno Domini mean when referring to a year?
In the year Jesus was born (in Greek)
And Lord (in English)
none of these
In the year of our Lord (in Latin)
7
Which Mesopotamian city-state do scholars think invented the wheel?
The Sumerians
The Hittites
The Babylonians
The Akkadians
8
In the ancient world, a society that has its own politics and culture is called
city-states
states
cities
empires
9
How many years ago is 1750 B.C. if the current year is 2015?
2015
1750
3765
258
10
Why is the B.C. andA.D. dating system controversial?
No one can agree on dates
No one reads latin
Not everyone practices Judaism
not everyone is a Christian
11
Where is the Fertile Cresent?
Africa
North America
The Middle East
Asia
12
What is the difference between prehistory and ancient history
Anything after fall of Rome
Ancient history is anything B.C.
there are no written records of prehistory
prehistory is anything B.C.
13
What is one thing that distinguishes one civilization from another?
language
types of crops
none of these
types of weapons
14
What was the first form of writing called?
Sanskrit
hieroglyphs
cuneiform
scribist
15
What does Mesopotamia mean?
land of the first peoples
land of the ancient ones
land between two rivers
land along the river
16
Ancient history can be learned by studying
prehistory
anything before 1900
The study of ancient Egypt and Rome
primary & secondary sources

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