Ancient civ chap 1&2

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Explore Ancient Civilizations Quiz

Test your knowledge of ancient civilizations with this engaging quiz that covers key concepts from the early human years to the rise of complex societies. Challenge yourself with 53 carefully crafted questions designed to enhance your understanding of our shared history.

What you will find:

  • Multiple choice questions
  • Topics ranging from the Stone Age to ancient societies
  • A fun and educational experience
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An object that was made by humans.
Neolithic
Artifact
People’s way of life.
Culture
Dynasty
Species who walk upright.
Hominid
Homo sapiens
The earlier and longer part of the Stone Age that lasted about 2.5 million to 8000 B.C.
Delta
Paleolithic Age
Also called the New Stone Age, ended in early 3000 B.C.
Neolithic Age
Paleolithic Age
A technique, skill, or method to meet their needs.
Loess
Technology
A species name for modern humans.
Empire
Homo sapiens
People who moved around to find sources of food.
Nomad
Pharaohs
Nomadic groups with food supplies that consist of hunted animals and plants.
Hunter-gatherer
Culture
Also known as the agricultural revolution, this era is the beginning of farming.
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Revolution
To clear a field, they cut trees and or grasses and burn them.
Slash-and-burn farming
Domestication
Taming animals
Domestication
Empire
A complex culture with five characteristics: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.
Culture
Civilization
A work field that lets you develop skills.
Specialization
Mesopotamia
Workers who make goods with their hands.
Scribe
Artisan
A long-lasting pattern that’s organizational in a community.
Institution
Narmer
Professional record keepers.
Scribe
Barter
A system of writing that means “wedge-shaped”.
Cuneiform
Feudalism
A time period where instead of people using stone and copper, they use bronze.
Homo sapiens
Bronze Age
The curved shape and the richness of the region’s land.
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Land between the rivers.
Empire
Mesopotamia
A city that has their own governments and rulers.
Loess
City-states
Series of rulers from one family.
Dynasty
Civilization
An innovative idea or product that has passed from one culture to another.
Cultural appreciation
Cultural diffusion
Belief in more than one god
Monotheism
Polytheism
Bringing several people, nations, or previously independent states together to be under the control of one ruler.
Empire
Team
King of the Babylonian Empire (made a list of laws)
Hammurabi
Herodotus
An ancient Greek historian.
Narmer
Herodotus
A broad, watery triangular place formed by the accumulation of silt at the part of the river.
Pyramid
Delta
King of Lower Egypt.
Narmer
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian god-kings.
Neolithic
Pharaohs
Belief in one god
Monotheism
Polytheism
A type of government in which rule is based on religious authority.
Theocracy
Hominid
A resting place for kings of the Old Kingdom.
Cemetery
Pyramid
Egyptian, mainly royal Egyptians, bodies to prevent it from decaying fast.
Mummification
Pharaohs
A writing system made by scribes that mean “sacred carving”.
Papyrus
Hieroglyphics
A writing surface made by the Egyptians after hieroglyphics.
Papyrus
Dynasty
Huge parts of a continent.
Subcontinent
Continents
Seasonal winds that dominate India’s climate.
Scribe
Monsoons
Another name for Indus Valley civilization. It has many archeological discoveries made in that place.
Hieroglyphics
Harappan Civilization
Fertile soil that was blown by winds from the deserts to the west and north.
Monsoons
Loess
Kingdom to people who lived outside of China.
Middle Kingdom
Upper Kingdom
Parts of animal bones and tortoise shells (used to interact with the gods)
Artifact
Oracle bones
When a new ruler gets an approval to rule.
Mandate of Heaven
King
Where ruling is passed to another noble family.
Pattern
Dynasty Cycle
A political system in which lands that legally belong to the king can be used by nobles or lords.
Mesopotamia
Feudalism
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POLITICAL
ECONOMY
RELIGION
SOCIAL
INTELLECTUAL
ARTS
AREA
Mesopotamia gets flooded by...? (Choose two answers)
Tigris River
Red Sea
Umma
Euphrates
In China, what helped improve trading?
More items
Coins
Wood
Iron
How did the Sumerians defend their villages?
Built with bronze iron
Build with mud bricks
Why was trading hard for China?
Less population
They weren't doing anything
They were isolated
Barely any items to trade with
What happened to the Indus River Valley?
They all moved to China
They were all killed
A natural disaster happened which caused them to be lost
Unknown
Without the Nile River
Egypt wouldn't have existed
Earth would be dead
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