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