March Ancient History
  • 1. How did rivers contribute to the survival of the early civilizations?
A) Provided a power source
B) Formed barriers around civilizations
C) Provided a route to get to other civilizations
D) Provided a supply of water and rich soil for growing food.
  • 2. What geographical features provided fertile land that gave rise to Mesopotamian city-states?
A) Zagros Mountains and Caspian Sea
B) Persian Gulf and Arabian Desert
C) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
D) Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
  • 3. What is an important feature that was necessary for early civilizations?
A) Water Sources
B) Access to metals such as iron
C) Flat areas for building
D) Warm climate
  • 4. Which is the most likely reason that hunter-gatherers began farming
A) Scarcity, or food was difficult to find
B) wars among groups
C) a decline in population
D) a loss of technology
  • 5. What job would study the natural features of the earth such as water, landforms and climate?
A) Archeologists
B) Teachers
C) Historians
D) Geographers
  • 6. What river did the Ancient Egyptian civilization build up around?
A) Euphrates
B) Nile
C) Arabian
D) Tigris
  • 7. Paleolithic is a term meaning:
A) New Stone Age
B) Technology Age
C) Ice Age
D) Old Stone Age
  • 8. Neolithic is a term meaning:
A) Old Stone Age
B) ice Age
C) New Stone Age
D) Technology Age
  • 9. Groups of people who move from place to place are called:
A) Nomads
B) Historians
C) Anthropologists
D) Astronomers
  • 10. Mesopotamian farmers developed a system of _________ to control the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
A) Writing
B) Irrigation
C) Flooding
D) Cuneiform
  • 11. Around 2340 B.C.E. Sargon conquered all of Mesopotamia and other areas to create the worlds first:
A) Capital City
B) Empire
C) City-State
D) Farming Village
  • 12. What characteristic best helped hominids to survive?
A) Being able to Talk
B) Being able to practice religion
C) Being able to Write
D) Being Biped
  • 13. Being an upright walker allowed early hominids to:
A) Practice religion
B) Kill other animals
C) Hunt food and gather plants and berries
D) Climb trees
  • 14. Egyptians developed a system of writing called:
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Papyrus
C) Geometry
D) Scribes
  • 15. Egyptian government was ruled by
A) Scribes
B) Priests
C) Pharaohs
D) Kings
  • 16. The Great Pyramid was built by;
A) Khufu
B) King Tut
C) Ramses
D) Ahmose
  • 17. 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
  • 18. 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) Middle Kingdom
B) Old Kingdom
C) Nile Kingdom
D) New Kingdom
  • 19. 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
  • 20. As people begin to farm and create stable food supply they then:
A) create fire
B) build permanent shelters
C) fight one another
D) decrease in population
  • 21. New irrigation techniques are seen in all the early civilizations, what is irrigation?
A) building permanent shelters
B) domesticating plants and animals
C) creating laws for all people
D) controlling and bringing water from one location to another
  • 22. Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of many early civilizations
A) The forest was full of animals
B) The soil was good for crops
C) The caves provided shelter for the people
D) The hills were rich with gold
  • 23. Trade brings new resources to an area, what is an additional positive effect of trade on a civilization?
A) Wars are fought over new land
B) New ideas are spread and culture grows
C) Old products are not used anymore
D) Populations decrease
  • 24. Why did writing start?
A) to teach people to farm
B) to record infomation
C) to communicate with new people from different areas
D) to tell stories
  • 25. Many early civilizations believed in many gods, what is this called?
A) Islam
B) Polytheism
C) Theology
D) Monotheism
  • 26. In early civilizations, what belief about the leader (Kings or Pharaohs) helped him to rule and have supreme power?
A) That he knew how to write
B) That he had already started to buil a religious temple
C) That he was a god or was chosen by god
D) That he was the biggest and strongest person in the city
  • 27. Describe 3 of the 7 parts or characteristics of a civilization. For each characteristic, give a specific example of how it was shown in any of the ancient civilizations.
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