- 1. a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past.
A) Fossil
B) Anthropologist
C) Archaeologist
D) Artifact
E) Historian
- 2. person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
A) Artifact
B) Anthropologist
C) Historian
D) Fossil
E) Archaeologist
- 3. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
A) Anthropologist
B) Artifact
C) Historian
D) Fossil
E) Archaeologist
- 4. the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in a petrified or as a mold or cast in rock.
A) Artifact
B) Archaeologist
C) Historian
D) Fossil
E) Anthropologist
- 5. person who studies various aspects of humans within past and present societies.
A) Historian
B) Anthropologist
C) Fossil
D) Archaeologist
E) Artifact
- 6. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
A) Artifact
B) Historian
C) Archaeologist
D) Fossil
E) Nomad
- 7. King of upper Egypt, also known as Menes
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Narmer
C) Cataract
D) Delta
E) Papyrus
- 8. Wild rapids made by narrow cliffs and boulders in the Nil
A) Delta
B) Cataract
C) Narmer
D) Hieroglyphics
E) Papyrus
- 9. An area of fertile soil
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Delta
C) Cataract
D) Papyrus
E) Narmer
- 10. A reed plant that grew along the Nile
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Cataract
C) Delta
D) Narmer
E) Papyrus
- 11. A complex writing system that combined picture symbols and sound symbols
A) Cataract
B) Delta
C) Narmer
D) Papyrus
E) Hieroglyphics
- 12. A line of rulers from one family
A) Cataract
B) Dynasty
C) Papyrus
D) Delta
E) Narmer
- 13. A man that the Israelites believed they were descended from. In the Bible it states that God told Abraham and his followers to leave Mesopotamia and go to the land of Canaan; there they could worship the one true God.
A) Abraham
B) Jacob
C) Moses
D) Phoenician
E) Deborah
- 14. Abraham’s grandson; also called Israel, which means “one who struggles with God”.
A) Abraham
B) Jacob
C) Phoenician
D) Moses
E) Deborah
- 15. In the Bible it states that the pharaoh ordered all baby boys to be killed in order to prevent a rebellion. The mother of one baby put her’s in a basket to save his life. The pharaoh’s daughter found the baby and named him Moses.
A) Jacob
B) Abraham
C) Phoenician
D) Deborah
E) Moses
- 16. A woman judge who helped the Israelites destroy King Jabin of Hazor and his army in about 1125 B.C.
A) Jacob
B) Deborah
C) Phoenician
D) Abraham
E) Moses
- 17. Someone belonging to a group of Canaanites called the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians lived in cities along the Mediterranean Sea. These people were skilled sailors and traders. They used their ships to carry goods across the Mediterranean Sea to Greece, Spain, and even western Africa.
A) Abraham
B) Jacob
C) Deborah
D) Moses
E) Phoenician
- 18. The belief in one god
A) Jacob
B) Deborah
C) Monotheism
D) Abraham
E) Moses
- 19. the Mycenaean king who used trickery to win the Trojan War
A) Cleisthenes
B) Agamemnon
C) Peisistratus
D) Solon
E) Cyrus the Great
- 20. a noble who cancelled all the farmers’ debts and freed those who had become slaves; he also let all male citizens participate in the assembly and law courts
A) Peisistratus
B) Cleisthenes
C) Solon
D) Cyrus the Great
E) Agamemnon
- 21. a tyrant who seized power in 560B.C. He won the support of the poor by dividing large estates among landless farmers. He loaned money to the poor and gave them jobs building temples and other public works.
A) Peisistratus
B) Agamemnon
C) Cyrus the Great
D) Solon
E) Cleisthenes
- 22. a leader who came to power in 508 B.C., known as the most important leader after Peisistratus. He reorganized the assembly to play the central role in governing. Now members of the assembly had new powers: debating matters openly, hearing court cases, and appointing army generals.
A) Peisistratus
B) Agamemnon
C) Cleisthenes
D) Cyrus the Great
E) Solon
- 23. a remarkable ledare who managed to unite the persians into a powerful kingdom; under him, Persia began building an empire larger than any yet seen in the world
A) Solon
B) Cyrus the Great
C) Peisistratus
D) Cleisthenes
E) Agamemnon
- 24. a Persian man who reorganized the government to make it work better
A) Peisistratus
B) Agamemnon
C) Cleisthenes
D) Solon
E) Darius
- 25. - Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey during the 700’s B.C.
A) Myth
B) Homer
C) Sophocles
D) Euripides
E) Aesop
- 26. - A greek slave that created famous fables
A) Homer
B) Aesop
C) Euripides
D) Sophocles
E) Myth
- 27. - ⅓ best well known writers of greek tragedies wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone
A) Euripides
B) Myth
C) Homer
D) Aesop
E) Sophocles
- 28. - ⅓ best well known writers of greek tragedies who used more down to earth characters instead of just gods and heros as his contemporaries did.
A) Homer
B) Myth
C) Euripides
D) Aesop
E) Sophocles
- 29. - Traditional stories about gods and heroes
A) Homer
B) Aesop
C) Myth
D) Euripides
E) Sophocles
- 30. - People would go here to find out about the future
A) Homer
B) Aesop
C) Oracle
D) Sophocles
E) Euripides
- 31. - a group of people who began settling in the religion
A) Brahmans
B) Sanskrit
C) Subcontinent
D) Aryans
E) Monsoon
- 32. - priests; the only people who could perform religious ceremonies
A) Brahmans
B) Sanskrit
C) Monsoon
D) Aryans
E) Subcontinent
- 33. - a large, distinguishable part of a continent
A) Brahmans
B) Aryans
C) Subcontinent
D) Monsoon
E) Sanskrit
- 34. Monsoon- a strong wind that blows one direction in winter and the opposite direction in the summer
A) Brahmans
B) Monsoon
C) Subcontinent
D) Aryans
E) Sanskrit
- 35. - a written language developed in India by the Nomads
A) Subcontinent
B) Aryans
C) Sanskrit
D) Brahmans
E) Monsoon
A) Brahmans
B) Subcontinent
C) Aryans
D) Monsoon
E) Raja
- 37. - also know as the Yellow RIver, flows across China for more than 2,900
A) Aristocrats
B) Chang Jiang
C) Huang He
D) Dynasty
E) Anyang
- 38. - is another great river that flows across China also know as Yangtze River
A) Dynasty
B) Chang Jiang
C) Anyang
D) Huang He
E) Aristocrats
- 39. - a line of rulers who belong to the same family
A) Anyang
B) Huang He
C) Dynasty
D) Aristocrats
E) Chang Jiang
- 40. - one of the first cities that the shang built in northern China
A) Chang Jiang
B) Anyang
C) Aristocrats
D) Huang He
E) Dynasty
- 41. - nobles whose wealth came from the land they owned
A) Chang Jiang
B) Anyang
C) Aristocrats
D) Huang He
E) Dynasty
- 42. - characters that stand for objects
A) Huang He
B) Chang Jiang
C) Anyang
D) Pictographs
E) Dynasty
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