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What are the 2 rivers that border Mesopotamia?
Yellow and Yangze
White Nile River & Blue Nile
Nile Delta & Missisipi
Tigris & Euphrates
2
The most isolated of the four main river civilizations was?
China River Valley
Indus River Valley
Mesopotamia
Egypt
3
Mesopotamia was made up of
City-States
Provinces
United Countries
Upper and Lower Meso.
4
The idea that rulers had divine approval and that the real royalty came from heaven is known as
Feudalism
Mandate of Heaven
Dynastic Cycle
Justification of Life
5
The major advantage of the Chinese writing system was
ability to unify civilization
one symbol for each sound
the limited amount of characters
be simple and easy
6
In Egypt, people believed that the ________ is more than a man but a God.
Pharoah
Religion
Sun God
Government
7
What type of mineral did they use to make the strongest weaponry?
Bronze
Diamond
Gold
Iron
8
What does Mesopotamia mean?
"near the Syrian Desert"
"middle america"
"between the rivers"
"between the gulf and sea"
9
Theocracy is a type of government based on
Civilization
Religion
Location
Language
10
What is history?
Study of the past
Study of the past based only on artifacts
Study of the future
11
What were other good sources of food?
Buffalo
Birds
Fish
Livestock
12
When rule is passed down through a single family.
Mandate of Heaven
Theocracy
Dynasty
Polytheism
13
Which king united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Sargon
Hammurabi
Gilgamesh
Narmer
14
Sargon of Akkad created the first?
Written Language
Written Code of Laws
Empire
Form of Writing
15
What is the most important concept that allowed each civilization to develop?
Geography
Government
Verbal Language
Great Rulers
16
What item below did the Mesopotamians not invent?
Lunar Calendar
System of Counting
Perfume
The Plow
17
The Mesopotamians used __________, a way of supplying water to an area of land
Irrigation
terraced farming
rain
Canals
18
The rise, fall, and replacement of Dynasties is known as
Climate Change
Dynastic Cycle
Feudalism
Mandate of Heaven
19
According to ancient Chinese belief, just and effective rulers would
achieve the status of Gods
never be overthrown
reign for 800 years
receive authority from heaven
20
What did farmers grow?
Onions & Tomatos
Wheat & Barley
Carrots & Brussels sprouts
Cabbage & Water melon
21
We know more about the Egyptian civilization because they
were required to write by law
used papyrus
had a bigger trade network
was a main part of their culture
22
The Sumerians were the first people in Mesopotamia to build large temples called ________.
Ziggurat
Pyramid
Schools
Churches
23
The crops grew well near......
Oceans
Rivers
Fish tanks
Reefs
24
In what pattern were cities built with in the Indus River Valley?
No Pattern
Rectangular Pattern
Circular Pattern
Grid Pattern
25
What allowed China to become successful in trade?
Roads and Canals
Metal Weapons
All of the Above
Coined Money
26
Who created the first written code of laws in Mesopotamia; a whopping 282.
Narmer
Sargon of Akkad
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
27
What did the creation of an advanced plumbing system say about the Indus Valley civilization?
Advanced city planning
Not that unique
Most societies had this
Unskilled laborers
28
Less is known about the Harappans than the Egyptians or Mesopotamians because of:
Harappans had no written records
lack of written records to compare
loss of the royal archives
All written records were destroyed
