Chapter 1 Review

Which of the following is not on of the Five Themes of Geography?

• Region

• Nature

• Location

• Movement

What was the name of the valley where the first civilizations settled?

• Fertile Crescent

• Water Valley

• River Valley

• Mesopotamian Valley

What was the capital of Assyria?

• Sumeria

• Babylon

• Sargon

• Nineveh

Where were schools first invented?

• Sumeria

• Akkadia

• Assyria

• Babylon

Who was the most famous king of Babylon?

• Persanius

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Perseus

What was the name of the land that had the first highly organized civilizations?

• Iraq

• Iran

• Greece

• Mesopotamia

What was the passing of information from generation to generation through spoken word and memorization instead of by writing it down?

• Truthing

• Fables

• Oral Tradition

• Story Time

What were the names of the two rivers that flowed through the Fertile Crescent?

• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Eastern and Western Rivers

• Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

• Fertile and Mesopotamian Rivers

How many gods did the Mesopotamians believe in?

• 3

• 30

• 300

• 3000

What was the name of the first civilization in Mesopotamia?

• Babylon

• Assyria

• Sumeria

• Akkadia