Unit 1 Test- McDermott
What is your name?
Use the following list to answer the question:
Natural Barriers of desert, mountains, and seas
Yearly floods made farmland fertile
Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
Papyrus Plants
Hieroglyphics
What is the Best title for the list above?
Which of the following means “belief in one god”?
Because rivers like the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates flooded in ancient times _________?
Which of the following means “land between two rivers”
Hammurabi’s code is important because it
The Rosetta stone allowed for historians to finally be able to translate which language?
The writing system of Mesopotamia is called____________.
Buildings that were city-centers for religious or economic purposes?
A way to divert rivers to water crops?
A city and the surrounding land it controlled?
A broad triangular area at the mouth of a river?
God-king of ancient Egypt were called?
Fertile soil left behind by the flooding of the Nile river is called?
Which of the following is a method used to determine the age of artifacts?
The term Homo Sapiens means?
What kind of tools did they use in the Paleolithic age?
Anthropology is the study of ______.
Food surpluses in Neolithic villages allowed for which of the following?
Which of the following believe in Many Gods?
Who were the first humans to make fire?
The ability to acquire food on a regular basis meant that human could ____________?
The real change in the Neolithic Revolution was the_________.
Which of the following means the time period before writing began?
Who were the Aryans?
Hammurabi is remembered most for ______.
A theocracy is a government in which ____________.
Modern historians have divided Egyptian history into three major periods:
Read the quote below:
“If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.”
Who is likely to have said this?
Which of the following is known for following the principles of the Veda?
The silk road was a ____________.
Read the following passage and then answer questions the questions about the information contained within the passage:
"The Mesopotamians viewed their city-states as earthly copies of a divine model and order. Each city-state was sacred because it was linked to a god or goddess. Hence, Nippur, the earliest center of Sumerian religion, was dedicated to Enlil, god of Wind. Moreover, located at the heart of each major city-state was a temple complex. Occupying several acres, this sacred area consisted of a ziggurat with a temple at the top dedicated to the god or goddess who owned the city. The temple complex was the true center of the community. The main god or goddess dwelt there symbolically in the form of a statue, and the ceremony of dedication included a ritual that linked the statue to the god or goddess and thus supposedly harnessed the power of the deity for the city's benefit....Although the gods literally owned the city, the temple complex used only part of the land and rented out the remainder"
According to the passage, Who did the Mesopotamians think owned and controlled their cities?
According to the passage, Which of the following was considered to be the center (or heart) of the community of ancient Mesopotamia?
According to the Passage, what was each city-state linked to that made it sacred?
What nation FOUND the Rosetta Stone?
Read the following passage and answer the questions that correspond to the reading:
"Located in a display case on the ground floor of the British Museum in London, usually surrounded by a crowd of people, is a large slab of black basalt known as the Rosetta Stone (figure 1). It is the main focus of the museum's Egyptian collection and is viewed by millions of visitors each year (Edwardes). This stone weighs three quarters of a ton and is 114.4 cm in height, 72.3 cm in length, and 27.9 cm in width ("The Rosetta Stone"). It is partly damaged, with a large part of the upper left-hand corner and a smaller part of its lower right corner missing (Sewell). On its face three different forms of writing are inscribed. It is the three inscriptions that make this object so important because it was the decipherment of these texts that was essential for the translation of hieroglyphics."
What nation currently has the Rosetta Stone?
According to the passage, what language was translated using the Rosetta stone?
According to the passage, a lot of museum visitors come to see the Rosetta stone in person?
According to the passage there are three forms on writing on the face of the Stone.
Read the following quote and answer questions based on the information:
"You say we are heathens, we are uneducated, uncultivated, but we laugh in our sleeves at your want of refinement in telling us such things. With us, quality and birth make caste, not money. No amount of money can do anything for you in India. In caste the poorest is as good as the richest, and that is one of the most beautiful things about it. (here "we" means "Indians")"
According to the passage, what two things make the caste?
According to the passage, money will help you in India?
Overall- Does this passage support or reject the ideals of the Indian Caste System?
Read the following passage and answer the questions based on the information provided:
“The Egyptian Nile,” wrote one Arab traveler, “surpasses all of the rivers of the world in sweetness of taste, in length of course and usefulness. No other river in the world can show such a continuous series of towns and villages along its banks.” In their hymn to the Nile,” Egyptians wrote of their reliance on the river: “The bringer of food, rich in provisions, creator of all good, lord of majesty, sweet of fragrance…[The Nile] makes the granaries wide, and gives things to the poor. He who makes every beloved tree to grow.” -James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts, 1969
According to the passage, why did towns and villages establish along the banks of the Nile?
According to the Passage, why did the Egyptians rely on the Nile river?
What is most Africa known for being full of ________________.
Which civilization is known for creating an early system of Plumbing?
Which Ancient Civilization is most closely associated with the Caste System?
Which of the following Ancient Civilizations is associated with having ruling families called Dynasties?
Where do most scientist believe that human life began?
Which of the following is a subgroup of Homo Sapiens that were 1st found near Neander Valley in Germany?
Which of the following are objects that Archaeologists examine?
Scientists believe that Farming may have begun when _____?
Which of the following are two new jobs that came out of the Neolithic Revolution?
Wore ONLY animal skins
Farming
Hunter-gatherers
Herders
Agriculture
Use only simple stone tools
Nomadic
Live in temporary Shelters
Built Homes
Had smaller populations
Buried their dead in Special places
Buried their dead in Special places
Had a steady and more reliable food supply
Followed plant and animal cycles and migrations