First Semester Post Test

The world's oldest preserved mummy

• King Tut

• Iceman

• nomad

• Euphrates

"Prehistory" is the time before people

• farmed

• used copper tools

• knew how to write

• spoke

During the Old Stone Age and Middle Stone Age, food was supplied by

• farmers

• archaeologists

• traders

• hunter-gatherers

Central governments, cities, writing, specialized jobs, architecture, and literature are characteristics of a

• civilization

• subcontinent

• farming village

• city-state

The "land between the rivers" is

• Egypt

• the Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• Canaan

The Israelites were the first civilization to practice "monotheism," which means that they believed in

• many gods

• one God

• ziggurats

• absolute power

The first writing was called

• scribes

• cuneiform

• papyrus

• hieroglyphs

The first set of written laws was

• the Ten Commandments

• Phoenician

• Hammurabi's Code

• Diaspora

The river that ran through the center of ancient Egypt was the

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Indus

• Nile

The key to reading ancient Egyptian writing was found on the

• Rosetta Stone

• Valley of the Kings

• cataracts

• Great Pyramid of Giza