World History - Year in Review

Moses led his people out of Egypt in a journey called the _______________.

The most fertile soil in Egypt was located in the _______________.

Who was the goddess of agriculture?

The Sumerians developed the world's first system of writing, known as _______________.

What was the Macedonian phalanx?

Who developed the world's first alphabet?

Why was Alexander known as "the Great"?

_______________ is the title used by the rulers of Egypt.

What are the two main branches of geography?

The Egyptian civilization formed along the _______________, the world's longest river.

The __________ and the __________ were the two earliest cultural groups to develop in Greece.

During the Neolithic Era, the development of _______________, or farming, changed human society forever.

The _______________ was a stone slab inscribed with hierolgyphics that helped historians read ancient Egyptain writing.

The Hebrew Bible traces the Hebrews back to a man named _______________.

The object with ancient writing in this photo is a _______________.

Historians call the time before there was writing _______________.

The early civilization of Mesopotamia formed in a large arc of rich farmland known as _______________.

Egyptians believed that a body had to be prepared for _______________ before it could be buried.

Why did people conquered by Cyrus the Great seldom rebel?

Mesopotamia was located between the ___________ and __________ rivers.

Who was considered the king of the gods?

The Egyptian writing system was called _______________.

Who wrote the famous works The Iliad and the Odyssey?

During what era did people first use stones tools?

Which Egyptian pharaoh was both a great warrior and great builder and known largely for the massive monuments he built?

The discovery of the mummified body known as _______________ the Iceman has taught us about life during the Stones Ages.

Which city-state won the Peloponnesian War?

The Athenians main rivals were from _______________.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found by a young boy exploring a small cave near the Dead Sea.

Coins, arrowheads, tools, toys, and pottery are examples of ___________________.

During the last ice age, the land bridge exposed between _______ and _______ allowed people to migrate around the world.

In Southern Mesopotamia, a people known as the ________________ developed the world's first civilization.

What do we call the study of the past?

Which of the following was not a group of early hominids?

The division of society by rank or class is known as _______________.

The people of Athens practiced a representative democracy.

Who was the god of the sea?

How did the event at Masada end?

_______________ was a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.

The early Hebrews practiced the religion of _______________.

Who was the Akkadian emperor who established the world's first empire and first to have a permanent army?

A sphinx is an imaginary creature with the body of a _______________ and the head of other animals or humans.

The Greeks were the first to practice a _______________, a government in which the people rule themselves.

Early ancestors of humans are known as _______________.

The _______________, which consists of five books of laws and early history, is the most sacred text of Judaism.

Which sea surrounds Greece?