Pre-Classical Civilizations

Mesopotamia is Greek for

• fertile crescent
• land between 2 rivers
• Sumer
• Babylon

All of the following are true of Mesopotamia except

• it is found in modern day Egypt
• There was a city state named Babylon
• Part of it was called Sumer
• It was in the Fertile Crescent

Mesopotamia's written language was called

• cuneiform
• heiroglyphs
• scribes
• ziggurat

If a common man cut out the eye of a common man, what would be his punishment under Hammurabi's Code?

• he would have his eye put out
• he would be put to death
• he would have to pay gold
• nothing

Which of these was invented by the Sumerians?

• Chariot
• Wheel
• Cuneiform
• all of the above

Hammubi's code is a famous system of laws because it

• is  one of the earliest written law codes
• led to democracy
• had such lenient punishments
• led to the world's first rebellion

Ancient Egypt was protected by natural barriers formed by

• Deserts

• Mountains

• Oceans

• The Nile

All of the following were in wide use during the Neolithic Revolution except?

• Domestication of Animals

• Bronze

• Irrigation

• Fire

The Egyptians had what type of writting?

• cuneiform

• heiroglyphs

• inscribing

• pictographs

The Neolithic Revolution occured when people discovered how to...

• grow food and domesticate animals

• trade with others in the same river valley

• fight wars using metal weapons

• make stone temples for religious ceremonies