Test Review Unit 1

Which River Valley Civilization

Produced Iron weapons and ornaments

Had a writing system based on symbols

Produced silk fabric

Beginnings of dynastic empires

• Nile Valley (Egypt)

• Indus Valley (Harrapa India)

• Yellow Valley (Shang China

• Tigris and Euphrates Valley (Sumer Mesopotamia)

Why was the Neolithic Revolution referred to as a Revolution?

• The peoples of the Four River Valley Civilizations were in continuous conflict over good hunting ground with the Hunter-Gatherers.

• The Hunter-Gatherer lifestyle gave way to village life with the invention of agriculture.

• The Hunter-Gatherer lifestyle completely erased the agricultural areas.

• The peoples of the Four River Valley Civilizations were in the process of creating new forms of transportation and trade.

Which of the following jobs in social studies would be responsible for studying the dig site in Mohenjo Daro above?

• Archaeologists and Anthropologists

• Historians and Cartographers

• Geologists and Anthropologists

• Cartographers and Archaeologists

Which of the following items are correctly paired together?

• Book of the Dead; Hebrew

• Epic of Gilgamesh; Cuneiform

• Mandate of Heaven; Hieroglyphics

• The Torah; Logographic signs

Hammurabi’s Code is distinct in that it began -

• That gods must be respected through law

• The rule of law

• dynastic change

• Urbanization

Because trade brought new civilizations into contact with one another -

• early river valley civilizations developed independently

• Painting and sculpture were developed

• the transfer of new technology often occurred

• Rulers claimed that their power was based on divine approval

Everyone was treated equally under Hammurabi's law code

• True

• False

The Indus River valley developed where it did because-

• It was far from other civilizations

• of the fertile land from the rivers

• It was close to the mountains

• it was close to the oceans

Jewish religions and cultural identity have been greatly influenced by -

• The ten commandments and the Torah

• The Vedas and the concept of reincarnation

• Hammurabi's code and the belief in many gods

• The Bible and the belief in one god

Match the Civilization with the writing

• 1. Sumer, 2. Shang China, 3. Egypt

• 1. Egypt, 2. Shang China, 3. Sumer

• 1. Sumer, 2. Egypt, 3. Shang China

• 1. Egypt, 2. Sumer, 3. Shang China