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Unit 2 Test
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Test on Alabama CCRS 8.2
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A pyramid shaped temple tower
Monsoon
Agriculture
Ziggurat
Pictograph
2
A large arch of rich, fertile, farmland
Monsoon
Empire
Fertile Crescent
Quell
3
Long poems that tell stories of heroes
Epics
Chariot
Alphabet
Silt
4
City grid planning, plumbing and sewers, weights and balances, and stone seals were connected
to Egypt
to the Nile River Valley
to Mesopotamia
to the Indus River Valley
5
A wheeled, horse drawn cart used in battle
Meander
Outlandish
Chariot
Migrate
6
A way of supplying water to an area of land
Rural
Silt
Irrigation
Urban
7
What marked the end of the Pre-Historic period?
Humanity
Monkeys
Writing
Farming
8
What makes India a subcontinent?
Cut off from the rest of Asia
Surrounded by water on three sides
Shaped like a triangle
Juts into Indian Ocean
9
Why were there two leaders in most Mesopotamian city-states?
One for peace time, one for war
Because they were polytheistic
to live on in another life
In case one got sick and died
10
What is a Shaduf?
A ditch
A canal
A clock
A farm tool
11
The science of building
Irrigation
Canals
Agriculture
Architecture
12
Freakishly strange or odd
Ziggurat
Rural
Canals
Outlandish
13
Which rivers flooded violently and unpredictably?
Tigris and Euphrates
Nile
Indus and Ganges
Tigris and Indus
14
Which of the following was NOT a major innovation in Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
Sail
Hieroglyphics
Wheel
15
The world's first system of writing
Chariot
City-State
Canals
Cuneiform
16
Picture symbols
Irrigation
Surplus
Canals
Pictographs
17
How did Mesopotamians get missing natural resources?
Traded with other Civilizations
Planted Trees
Constructed Sailboats
Dug Irrigation Ditches
18
What are Hammurabi's Code?
Mesopotamian Laws
Body Tattoos
Irrigation Ditches
River Routes
19
A legendary figure in Sumerian literature, "The Epic of ..."
Empire
Fertile Crescent
Gilgamesh
Monarch
20
Which came first?
State
Village
City
Tribe
21
More of something than needed
Irrigation
Chariot
Surplus
Rural
22
Why did Egyptians build Pyramids?
To please the gods
To remember the dead
Obsessed with afterlife
To scare away invaders
23
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land that shall not weep
Land between two rivers
Land of love
Land between mountain ranges
24
What was the name of the Egyptian ruler?
Knight
Pharaoh
King
Master
25
To suppress; put an end to; extinguish
Domestication
Priests
Silt
Quell
26
A set of letters that can be combined to form words
Monarch
Chariot
Domestication
Alphabet
27
Countryside area
Urban
Surplus
Outlandish
Rural
28
People who perform religious ceremonies
Urban
Epics
Migrate
Priest
29
Set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Quell
Agriculture
Monarch
Hammurabi's Code
30
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule
Empire
Rural
Priests
Migrate
31
Consists of a city and all the countryside around it
Quell
City-State
Monarch
Migrate
32
To take a winding, or indirect, course
Monkeys
Monarch
Meander
Migrate
33
The worship of many gods
Polygamy
Polytheism
Quell
Monotheism
34
What connection did the Egyptians believe their ruler had to the gods?
Servant of the gods
A god on Earth
The one and only God
Messenger of the gods
35
Human-made waterways
Monarch
Surplus
Meander
Canals
36
How did Egyptians respond when they saw their ruler?
Walked away
Bowed down
Begged for help
Complained
37
City areas
Urban
Rural
Silt
Empire
38
A ruler of a kingdom or empire
Chariot
Otzi
Surplus
Monarch
39
A writer
Pictographs
Quell
Migrate
Scribe
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A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Silt
Pictograph
Otzi
Scribe
