WORLD HISTORY MIDTERM 2025

​WORLD HISTORY MIDTERM 2025

By Andy Svec

Multiple Choice

What were pyramids?

• a place to store food surplus

• prisons
• tombs for pharaohs
• tombs for nobles

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Mesopotamia was between two rivers named _________.

• Jordan and Draper
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Nile and Elephant 

Match

Match the following

• Hammurabi

• Ziggurats

• cuneiform

• Polytheism

• scribe

Wrote a code of laws

Stepped Pyramid

Early form of writing

Belief in many gods

person who records for a ruler

• Wrote a code of laws

• Stepped Pyramid

• Early form of writing

• Belief in many gods

• person who records for a ruler

Labeling

Put the dates in chronological order correctly.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Birth of Jesus

AD 487

1800 BCE

AD 1215

12 BC

634 BC

123 CE

2500 BC

2023 CE

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Hinduism believes in __________ which is the process of birth, life, death, and rebirth.

• Karma
• Reincarnation
• heaven
• the afterlife

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Mohenjo-Daro was an Ancient India civilization that had an ____________________. 

• Starbucks
• advanced plumbing system
• elementary school
• swimming pool

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In Ancient India, they had 'levels of society' called the ____________________.

• Caste system
• Donald Trump club
• Upper, Middle, and Lower class
• Dora the Explorer club

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What is Egyptian writing called?

• cuneiform
• hieroglyphic
• characters
• Sanskrit

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What is the famous river in Egypt?

• Tigris
• Euphrates
• Nile
• Hudson

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What does the term "polytheism" refer to in the context of Mesopotamian beliefs?

• Belief in one god
  

• Belief in multiple gods
  

• Lack of religious beliefs
  

• Worship of nature

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5. Which source is more likely to provide firsthand information about an event?

• • Secondary source.

• • Fossil.

• Artifact.

• Primary source.

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BC =

• before communism

• before Christ

• bad civilization

• best city

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Who worshiped only one god?

• Egyptians

• Mesopotamians

• Israelites

• Romans

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What was Hammurabi’s most important reform?

• Code of law
• number system
• writing
• first empire

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Egypt is surrounded by desert, what is a benefit of this?

• The temperature is warm

• The sand is soft

• Protection

• Easy to navigate

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The mountain range to the north, in India, is the __________________.

• Adirondacks
• Rockies
• Himalayas
• Alps

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Hinduism believes in __________ which is the process of birth, life, death, and rebirth.

• Karma
• Reincarnation
• heaven
• the afterlife

Multiple Choice

Buddhism is based on the teaching from ________.

• God
• Asoka
• Siddhartha Gautama
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Mohenjo-Daro was an Ancient India civilization that had an ____________________. 

• Starbucks
• advanced plumbing system
• elementary school
• swimming pool

Multiple Choice

The mountain range to the north, in India, is the __________________.

• Adirondacks
• Rockies
• Himalayas
• Alps

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What is Egyptian writing called?

• cuneiform
• hieroglyphic
• characters
• Sanskrit

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What was the most common form of religious practice in Ancient Egypt?

• hieroglyphics
• polytheism
• mythology
• monotheism

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What is a dynasty?

• a collection of queens
• a collection of kingdoms
• series of rulers from different families
• series of rulers from the same family

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What is the famous river in Egypt?

• Tigris
• Euphrates
• Nile
• Hudson

Multiple Select

How did the Nile River benefit Egyptians? (select all that apply)

• fresh drinking water

• floods destroyed homes and crops

• floods provided silt

• papyrus grew near the river

• a waterway for transportation

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The Sumerian writing system was called

• Sargon
• Cyrillian
• cuneiform
• hieroglypics

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Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Sargon

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Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

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An independent city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture

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Who was the king of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia?

• Sargon

• Paul

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

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Which of the following were members of the upper class?

• artisans

• kings and priests

• merchants and traders

• scribes

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The Epic of Gilgamesh was a long poem written in

• cuneiform

• English

• Indo-European

• Hieroglypics

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Throughout history, which two factors have influenced where people settle?

• building supplies and nearby trade ports

• animals for hunting and average temperature

• drinking water and the ability to grow crops

• population density and business opportunity

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Who is a scientist who studies human life in the past by examining the things that people left behind?

• Anthropology

• Archaeologist

• Prehistory

• Fossil

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What is a time before humans invented writing?

• Anthropology

• Archaeologist

• Prehistory

• Fossil

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What is an object made by a human being?

• Geologist

• Artifact

• Hunter-gatherer

• Culture

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Who is a person who lives by hunting animals and gathering plants?

• Geologist

• Artifact

• Hunter-gatherer

• Culture

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What is the movement of people from one place to another?

• Evidence

• Migration

• Environment

• Adap

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What does it mean to change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans?

• Complex

• Network

• Populate

• Domesticate

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Objects from the past that archeologists study are called

• Things

• Items

• Fossils

• Artifacts

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What refers to the beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people?

• Geologist

• Artifact

• Hunter-gatherer

• Culture

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The belief system of a civilization; one God or many Gods

• Surplus Food

• Cities and Infrastructure

• Religion

• Written Language and Learning

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Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for pharaohs. Which characteristic does this demonstrate?

• social structure

• written language

• stable food supply

• use of steel tools

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Which characteristic does this photo (wheel) demonstrate?

• written language

• religion

• stable food supply

• technology

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binding agreement

• commandment

• constitution

• covenant

• council

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Who founded Judaism c. 2100 BC (BCE)?

• Moses

• Abraham

• Jesus

• Muhammad

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What statement best describes Monotheism?

• A religion that believes in only one god.

• A religion that believes in more than one god.

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Which of the following statements best describes the Ten Commandments?

• The law code of the Jewish people.

• A list of places that the Jewish people should never visit again.

• A list of foods the Jewish people should not eat.

• The orders that Moses gave to the Pharaoh before walking out of Egypt.

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What is the name of the "promised land"?

• Canaan

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• All of these

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The spread of Jews and their customs and culture beyond the Jewish homeland and across the Mediterranean region is known as

• the Talmud

• the Exodus

• Hanukkah

• the Diaspora