Ancient Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel

Ancient Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel

9th - 12th Grade

25 Qs

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9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which environmental issue did the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt face?

Extensive destruction of rain forests for lumber to build large structures.

Soil erosion resulting from annual rainfall of over 100 inches per year.

Catastrophic floods that destroyed crops and villages.

Waterways that were unnavigable most of the year.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

One effect of the Neolithic Revolution was to

Develop surplus food production and permanent settlements.

Introduce commercial investment in joint stock companies

Expand the use of realism in portraits and landscape paintings

Prove that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of the solar system

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

To increase the supply of food, some Neolithic communities living in arid regions of the world developed:

Three-field systems

Irrigation systems

Slash-and-burn methods

Petrochemical fertilizers

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The first civilizations arose in__________ because the conditions for farming were good.

River valleys

Mountains

Deserts

None of the above

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is NOT a common characteristic of a river valley?

Cities

Art

Religion

Mountains

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the name of the Sumerian system of writing?

Hieroglyphics

Sanskrit

Cuneiform

Pictographs

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If you were to describe the religion of most Sumerian city-states and Ancient Egypt, they would be:

Polytheistic

Theocratic

Monotheistic

Atheistic

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