Semester Exam Review 2

What was Hammurabi's code?

• A knight code during feudal times
• A unifying group of laws
• An encription code
• A kings tyrannical laws forced on slaves

Which BEST explains the rise of the first river valley civilizations?

• Climate changes suddenly made hunting more plentiful

• The introduction of farming led to a surplus of crops in flood plains with fertile soil

• Stone Age peoples learned how to make fires and tools of stone, wood, and bone

• A. New ideas were introduced to Mesopotamia and Egypt through trade

A Greek polis was a ______ in Ancient Greece.

• Republic

• city-state

• Empire

• religion

This was the governing body in ancient Roman Republic that supervised government affairs.

• patricians

• Senate

• consuls

• Tribunes

What geographic features kept the ancient Greeks from being united?

• The deserts kept them isolated.
• The mountains and the seas kept them isolated.
• The lakes kept them isolated.
• The ice and the snow kept them isolated.

_________ is the birthplace of democracy

• Greece
• Rome

The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth led to what religion's development?

• Nazarene
• Christianity
• Judaism
• Protestantism

The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth led to what religion's development?

• Nazarene
• Christianity
• Judaism
• Protestantism

What was Egypt's writing system called?

• cuneiform
• hieroglyphics
• pictograghs

One way in which the Huang He, the Indus, and the Nile civilizations were similar is that they each

• flourished by trading salt and gold
• developed monotheistic religions
• suffered repeated invasions
• originated in river valleys