World History Challenge 1
  • 1. How did rivers contribute to the survival of the early civilizations?
A) Provided a power source
B) Provided a supply of water and rich soil for growing food.
C) Provided a road to get to other civilizations
D) Formed barriers around civilizations
  • 2. What is an important feature that was necessary for early civilizations?
A) Water Sources
B) Flat areas for building
C) Warm climate
D) Access to metals such as iron
  • 3. Which is the most likely reason that hunter-gatherers began farming
A) a decline in population
B) a loss of technology
C) Scarcity, or food was difficult to find
D) wars among groups
  • 4. What river did the Ancient Egyptian civilization build up around?
A) Arabian
B) Tigris
C) Euphrates
D) Nile
  • 5. Paleolithic is a term meaning:
A) Old Stone Age
B) Ice Age
C) New Stone Age
D) Technology Age
  • 6. Neolithic is a term meaning:
A) Old Stone Age
B) ice Age
C) Technology Age
D) New Stone Age
  • 7. Groups of people who move from place to place are called:
A) Astronomers
B) Anthropologists
C) Nomads
D) Historians
  • 8. Mesopotamian farmers developed a system of _________ to control the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
A) Flooding
B) Irrigation
C) Writing
D) Cuneiform
  • 9. Egyptians developed a system of writing called:
A) Geometry
B) Papyrus
C) Hieroglyphics
D) Scribes
  • 10. Egyptian government was ruled by
A) Scribes
B) Pharaohs
C) Priests
D) Kings
  • 11. The ____________ lasted from 2000 to 1800 B.C.E. it was marked by the reunification of Egypt and by the Arts flourishing
A) New Kingdom
B) Middle Kingdom
C) Old Kingdom
D) Palace Kingdom
  • 12. The _____________, lasted from 2700 to 2200 B.C.E. This period was marked by the rise of the Pharaos and by the building of Pyramids
A) Old Kingdom
B) New Kingdom
C) Nile Kingdom
D) Middle Kingdom
  • 13. Domestication of animals was important because
A) it help to expand empires
B) it helped people to meet their agricultural needs and create a stable food supply
C) it helped to fight wars
D) it helped to bring animals into the city-states
  • 14. Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of many early civilizations
A) The soil was good for crops
B) The forest was full of animals
C) The hills were rich with gold
D) The caves provided shelter for the people
  • 15. Many early civilizations believed in many gods, what is this called?
A) Theology
B) Monotheism
C) Polytheism
D) Islam
  • 16. What Does Mesopotamia mean?
A) “Land of a 1000 lakes”
B) “Land between 2 rivers”
C) “Land of the first civilization”
D) “Land of Hammurabi”
  • 17. This term is known as the world’s first writing?
A) Cuneiform
B) Babylon
C) stylus
D) English
  • 18. A civilization is a __________________.
A) River in Mesopotamia
B) People and how they speak
C) Centralized society with a government, religion, and forms of learning
D) Ruler
  • 19. In what area is ancient Mesopotamia found in?
A) Fertile River
B) Fertile Crescent
C) South America
D) Australia
  • 20. What is the name of the Ancient Mesopotamian temple?
A) Pyramid
B) Church
C) Ziggurat
D) Synagogue
  • 21. ______________ is the belief in 1 God.
A) Polytheism
B) Jew
C) Islam
D) Monotheism
  • 22. How did the sail impact the Mesopotamians?
A) They were able to grow more crops.
B) They were able to trade over long distances.
C) They were able to remain isolated from other cultures.
D) They were able to build a powerful navy.
  • 23. A self-governing city that has its own ruler and laws is known as a
A) City-State
B) Empire
C) Culture
D) State-City
  • 24. A person hired to keep track of the items people trades is known as a
A) scribe
B) king
C) priest
D) slave
  • 25. One of the most important inventions by the Sumerians was the
A) wheel
B) a code of laws
C) purple dye
D) alphabet
  • 26. Which hominid was the earliest?
A) Homo Erectus
B) Australopithecus Afarensis
C) Homo Habilis
D) Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis
  • 27. Why is Homo Habilis known as "Handy Man"?
A) He designed the best tools
B) He never used tools
C) He was the first to shape strong metals into tools
D) He was the first to use tools
  • 28. This was the first hominid group to use fire.
A) Homo Erectus
B) Homo Neanderthalensis
C) Australopithicus Afarensis
D) Homo Sapiens Sapiens
  • 29. This group was the first hominid group to use organized groups to hunt
A) Neanderthal
B) Upright Man
C) Lucy
D) Handy Man
  • 30. preserved remains of plants and animals
A) fossil
B) anthropologist
C) archaeologist
D) artifact
E) nomad
  • 31. Specially trained scientists who work like detectives to uncover the story of prehistoric people are called _____.
A) anthropologists
B) artifacts
C) archaeologists
D) fossils
E) nomads
  • 32. Person who moves from place to place regularly, usually within a group of people
A) archaeologist
B) anthropologist
C) nomad
D) artifact
E) fossil
  • 33. What revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age?
A) toolmaking
B) hunting
C) simple shelters
D) farming
  • 34. What river did the first civilization in India originate along?
A) Tigris River
B) Nile River
C) Indus River
D) Tiber River
  • 35. Before the Muslim religion existed and because statues of different gods were discovered, it is believed that the Indus people were:
A) polytheistic
B) monotheistic
C) followers of Buddha
D) Roman Catholic
  • 36. Why can't we read the Indus written language?
A) they did not have a written language
B) no writing has been found
C) we cannot see their writing
D) we cannot translate it
  • 37. What is one theory about why Indus people disappeared?
A) there was a giant tidal wave
B) a volcanic eruption killed everyone
C) they relocated to Rome
D) there were floods
  • 38. What are some things the Ancient Indus people contributed?
A) build elaborate irrigation systems
B) develop a culture
C) design large cities
D) all of these
  • 39. The Nile River runs from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt in the direction of
A) North to South
B) East to West
C) South to North
D) South to East
  • 40. This is the system of writing and symbols developed and used by the Ancient Egyptians
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Cuneiform
C) Papyrus
D) Symbolic writing
  • 41. This is the water plant, tall reed, that was used by the Egyptians to create a paper-like substance
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Papyrus
C) Cotton
D) Linen
  • 42. This was the title for the ruler of Egypt
A) Emperor
B) Pharaoh
C) King
D) Lord
  • 43. This is the first step in the process of mummification
A) Burial
B) Wrapping
C) Replacing the organs back in the body
D) Embalming
  • 44. These are some of the "Gifts of the Nile"
A) Fish and game, Papyrus, and snow on the mountains
B) Pastureland, Natron, and the shaduf
C) The Red Land and the Black Land
D) Transportation, trade, drinking water
  • 45. The process of preserving the body of a pharoah or nobleman was called
A) Purification
B) Dynasty
C) Mummificiation
D) Burial
  • 46. Where the Nile River starts to spread into many finger canals creating a triangular shape, before emptying into the sea is called
A) The Delta
B) Valley of the Kings
C) The Persian Gulf
D) The Eastern Area
  • 47. The flooding of the Nile River began each year due to the snow that started to melt in the mountains in this month
A) December
B) June
C) October
D) February
  • 48. Huge stone tombs with four triangle shaped walls that met at a point on top, built in Ancient Egypt
A) sphinx
B) pyramids
C) obelisk
D) mummy
  • 49. The world's longest river that provided food and trade for the people in Egypt
A) Nile River
B) Amazon River
C) Tigris River
D) Euphrates River
  • 50. Humans and other creatures that wallk upright are called _______ .
A) mankind
B) homanid
C) human beings
D) hominids
  • 51. Who is Lucy?
A) The youngest hominid found to date.
B) A famous archeologist.
C) John Lennon's girlfriend
D) The oldest hominid found to date.
  • 52. People who lived in this phase of the Stone Age learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals.
A) Middle Kingdom
B) Paleolithic Age
C) New Kingdom
D) Neolithic Age
  • 53. Why were Sumerian communities called "city-states"?
A) They all depended on each other for water
B) Each of them kept written records
C) Each of the had its own ruler and farmland
D) They were all part of one great empire
  • 54. If you were in ancient Sumer, you might see a levee beside a river, why was the levee built?
A) to control workers
B) to load barges
C) to prevent floods
D) to irrigate the crops
  • 55. A self governing city that has its own ruler and laws is known as a
A) Culture
B) Empire
C) State-City
D) City-State
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