Unit 1: Beginnings of History Practice Test

What is the written language of the Sumerians?

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Pictographs
• Hiretic

What is the major river of Egypt?

• Euphrates
• Yangtze
• Nile
• Indus

What set of laws did the Babylonians create?

• Hammurabi's Code
• Book of the Dead
• Twelve Tables
• Code of Ur

Created fire. Hunted. Gathered. 

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic

Farmed. Domesticated animals. 

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic

What is the belief in multiple gods?

• Monotheism
• Polytheism

Early humans who lived by hunting animals and gathering small plants 

• Hunter Gatherers
• Clans
• Neanderthals
• Homo Habilis

A person who moves from place to place is called a 

• Wanderer
• Migrator
• Nomad
• Settler

How did the first villages start to develop?

• hunting & gathering

• water

• farming

• fire

Because the shift from hunting to farming was so important, historians call it the:

• New Stone Age

• Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

• Old Stone Age

• Paleolithic Revolution