Midterm Review

What is the main difference between Paleolithic and Neolithic Age?

• how people got their food

• the way people made tools

• the material used to make tools

• the kind of art people made.

What are some lasting contributions of ancient Egypt?

• Cuneiform

• math

• Ship building

• medicine

Egyptians felt that the pharaoh was responsible for

• repairing irrigation systems

• building granaries

• performing religious rituals

• Creating laws

• none of the above

In Sparta, if newborn babies were sick, in order to ensure the population had great future warriors, the babies were

• nursed back to help

• given experimental medicine

• given to another city-state

• left on a hillside to die

Why do the Chinese call the Huang He River “China’s Sorrow”?

• flooding had drowned many people

• the river moved rapidly & was dangerous

• the water was dirty

• The river was hard to get to

What did the Egyptians do to prepare the bodies for the afterlife

• buried the dead in the Nile River

• Mummified the dead

• buried the dead in the Sahara Desert

• cremation

Why did Egyptian mummify the dead?

• It was cheaper

• To make the body smell good

• To give the family time to mourn for their loss

• To provide the soul with a body in the afterlife

Hammurabi is best remembered for

• conquering Sumer

• creating the hanging gardens

• Conquering the Assyrians

• Creating a written code of law

The oldest civilizations of ancient India developed along what river valley?

• Ganges River

• Huang He River

• Nile River

• Indus River

The period of time after people first appeared but before they developed writing is known as

• Prehistory

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• New Kingdom