World History Common Final Exam Review

One advantage of living near mountains is

• flooding
• sea trade
• isolation from trade
• protection

This city-state is associated with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Sumeria
• Athens
• Persia
• Minoa

Ancient nomads often camped near

• farming villages
• resources they needed
• towns or cities
• other nomads

This civilization did not develop a common political system because of its interior mountains

• Indus Valley
• Mesopotamia
• Greece 
• China

To be considered a true civilization, a community must have this characteristic

• education
• a political system
• monotheism
• rivers

Geography is important because

• It is shared by all civilizations
• It is unpredictable
• It affects how civilizations develop
• It has no effect on civilizations

Because resources were scarce and concentrated in certain places, ancient civilizations developed

• trade
• social media
• writing
• merchants

One similarity between Judaism and Christianity is

• both are polytheistic
• both are monotheistic
• both use the Bible
• both follow Jesus

The MAIN advantage of living near a river valley was

• transportation and trade

• water for bathing

• water for farming

• water for cooking

Pax Romana refers to

• the Catholic religion
• a time of war in Rome
• a time of peace in Rome
• the political system in Rome