Unit 1 Section Test

This river would dominate life in Egypt.

• The Tigris

• The Nile

• The Yangtze

• The Indus

This would be one of the first civilizations to form in the Fertile Crescent area.

• The Babylonians

• Egyptians

• The Sumerians

• The Chinese

This area, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, would be known by what name?

• The Fertile Basin

• The Land of Abundance

• The Fertile Crescent

• The Purple Plain

All of the following would be achievements of the Sumerians EXCEPT:

• Writing

• The Wheel

• Papyrus Paper

• Domestication of Animals

What was Hammurabi's Code?

• A secret code used by the Babylonian military

• A special form of dress that was required by Babylonian nobles.

• A set of laws that applied to everyone in Babylon.

• A set of Egyptian laws and customs.

The following represents the Babylonian idea that the punishment should fit the crime.

• If a herdesman should make false returns of the natural increase or sell them for money, then shall he be convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss.

• If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

• If a man wishes to separate from his wife, he shall give her the amount of her purchase money and the dowry which she brought from her fathers house, and let her go.

• If the wife of a man has been caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them in the waters. If the owner of the wife would save his wife, then in turn the king should save his servant.

Egypt relied upon what kind of labor force to build their structures?

• Unskilled, foreign labor

• Prisoners of War

• Slave labor

• Highly skilled paid laborers.

Early Egyptian writing would be known by what name and be comprised of 700 symbols?

• Cuneiform

• Cursive

• Sandscrit

• Hieroglyphics

Egyptian leaders would be known by what title?

• Pharaoh

• Imperious Leader

• Emperor

• Caesar

Which of the the following architectural designs is most identified with Egypt?

• The Great Wall

• Columns

• The Pyramid

• The Trireme