Which of the following professionals is dedicated to the study of ancient peoples and artifacts?
A. Botanist
B. Lawyer
C. Archaeologist
D. Historian
What is archaeologist?
100
Tools, weapons, and jewelry are examples of ______________.
A. Artifacts
B. Archaeology
C. Hunters
D. Archaeologists
What is artifacts?
100
The word “Mesopotamia” means “the land between the ____________.”
A. Deserts
B. Rivers
C. Forests
D. Plains
What is rivers?
100
Temples were built as earthly homes for the ______________.
A. Gods
B. Kings
C. Priests
D. Government officials
What is gods?
100
Temples built by the Sumerians as earthly homes for the gods; they were usually built on the highest point of the city.
What is ziggurat?
200
How do archaeologists draw conclusions about prehistoric peoples?
A. By studying their writings
B. By discussing their theories
C. By studying the landscape
D. By studying artifacts
What is by studying artifacts?
200
_______________ is the science of studying past cultures through objects they left behind.
A. Ancient
B. Migration
C. Archaeology
D. Botany
What is archaeology?
200
What two rivers are part of the Fertile Crescent?
A. Ohio and Mississippi
B. Nile and Ganges
C. Tigris and Euphrates
D. None of the above
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
200
The Code of Hammurabi, a set of 282 laws created by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, is usually summarized with what phrase?
A. “A child for a child”
B. “An arm for a leg”
C. “A knee for a limb”
D. “An eye for an eye”
What is "an eye for an eye"?
200
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
300
For many years, who did scholars believe the Clovis people to be?
A. The first people to leave East Africa
B. The first people to make arrowheads
C. The first people in the Americas
D. The first Asians
What is the first people in the Americas?
300
What does culture include?
A. Technology
B. Customs
C. Beliefs
D. All of the above
What is all of the above?
300
Why was it hard to farm in Mesopotamia?
A. The hot, dry climate
B. Long dry seasons
C. Heavy floods
D. All of the above
What is all of the above?
300
Which leader led the Hebrews out of slavery?
A. Abraham
B. Isaac
C. Moses
D. Jacob
What is Moses?
300
The name of the kingdom David formed
What is Israel?
400
Which of the following marked the beginning of the New Stone Age?
A. Social divisions within a community
B. Domestication of animals
C. The widespread use of polished rock tools
D. Domestication of crops
What is the widespread use of polished rock tools?
400
The ______________ lasted until about 10,000 years ago.
A. Cave of the Hands
B. Land bridge
C. Iceman
D. Ice Age
What is the Ice Age?
400
Which of these was NOT a Mesopotamian city-state?
A. Clovis
B. Babylon
C. Sumer
D. Akkad
What is Clovis?
400
What is the name for the first five books of the Hebrew Bible?
A. New Testament
B. Torah
C. Pentateuch
D. Gospels
What is Torah?
400
The SECOND highest social class in Sumer
What is landowners/government officials/wealthy servants?
500
Cave art from about 17,000 years ago can be found in what town in southern France?
A. Paris
B. Lascaux
C. Cannes
D. Nice
What is Lascaux?
500
What does domestication mean?
A. Make tame
B. Make wild
C. Make ancient
D. Hunt
What is make tame?
500
The Sumerians invented a system of writing called _______________.
A. Cursive
B. Cuneiform
C. Hieroglyphics
D. Print
What is Cuneiform?
500
______________, an Akkadian ruler, created the world’s first empire by uniting all of the city-states in Mesopotamia.
A. Hammurabi
B. Nebuchadnezzar
C. Sargon
D. Caesar
What is Sargon?
500
The long period of time before human beings developed systems of writing and written language.