History TNReady Ultimate Review!

What is a civilization?

• ¤A group of people working together to create an organized society 
• a group of people that hunt and gather as they travel from place to place
• people that live by themselves and don't ever talk
• animals

Which two rivers was Mesopotamia between?

• Mississippi and Colorado Rivers
• Nile and the Amazon Rivers
• Tigris and Euphrates
• None it was in a desert

A __________ is the end of a river where the river bottom (silt) deposits build up, often making a fan-shaped area.

• peninsula
• delta
• river valley
• pond

Sumerians worshipped many gods, not just one.  This belief in many gods is called ___________.

• monotheism
• animalism
• atheism
• polytheism

What is a ziggurat?

• ancient grocery stores
• main temples used to worship the gods of a city
• type of candy
• the end of a river where the river bottom (silt) deposits build up, often making a fan-shaped area.

A Theocracy is a system of __________ in which priests or gods ruled.

• culture
• government
• freedom
• church

__________ is a method of watering the land by using canals and channels.

• irrigation
• flooding
• water treatment plants
• desalinization

Which of the following is NOT a feature of a civilization

• nomadic behavior
• food surplus
• cities 
• divisions of labor

Early Mesopotamians created multiple gods most likely to:

• start wars with neighboring city-states
• have someone to talk to
• explain life events they had no control over
• to explain their own actions

True or False: The Assyrians created the plow.

• True
• False