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