3rd Quarter Common Assessment

The trade route that connected China and the Mediterarrnean Sea.

• The Silk Road

• The Cotton Trail

• The Sea Route

• The Great Canal

The Chinese invention used to make fireworks.

• Gasoline

• Steel

• Gunpowder

• Coal

Which of the following was invented by the Ancient Chinese?

• Organized Labor

• Cuneiform

• Seismograph

• Hammurabi's Code

Which Civilizations created the first form of writing?

• Mesopotamia

• Egyptian

• China

An Egyptian king was called a ___________

• scribe
• servant
• papyrus
• pharaoh

What the major river that was in Ancient Egypt?

• Amazon
• Mississippi
• Nile
• Tiber

Egyptians had a written language using pictures. It was called ____________.

• cuneiform
• English
• hieroglyphics
• Cursive

How did the yearly flooding of the Nile River affect the people of Egypt and Kush?

• It isolated the settlements.
• It left silt that improved the soil.
• It spread diseases that destroyed whole empires.
• It attracted hunters and gatherers looking for wildlife.

What was a MAJOR purpose for building the pyramids?

• temples for religious worship
• storehouses for reserves of grain
• homes for the pharaohs' servants
• tombs for pharaohs when they died

a line of rulers from one family

• delta
• papyrus
• hieroglyphic
• dynasty