Unit 1 Test Review: Prehistory, Mesopotamia, and Egypt

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

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon

Where did the first civilizations arise because of farming conditions?

• in the mountains
• near the sea
• in river valleys
• n the desert

"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• China
• India
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia

Belief in more than one god

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Theology

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped

• City-States
• Statues
• Churches
• Ziggurats

A person who writes

• Author
• Scribe
• Hammurabi
• Illustrator