Early Civilizations - Mesopotamia - Assyria

Civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia emerged during what era?

• Paleolithic Era

• Neolithic Era

• Babylonia Era

• Mesolithic Era

Where did the earliest civilizations tend to develop?

• Mountain plateaus

• River valleys

• Coastlines

• Grassland steppes

The law code of the Babylonians in Mesopotamia was known as...

• 12 Tables

• Code of Hammurabi

• 10 commandments

• the Magna Carta

Cunneiform was a writing system in..

• Egypt

• Indus

• Mesopotamia

• Rome

The period 8000 BCE to 600 CE saw all of the following EXCEPT

• Birth of major world religions

• Origin of Agriculture

• Use of industrial steam engines

• development of writing

What geographic region is this

• North America

• Western Europe

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Latin America

What geographic region is represented in this image?

• Western Europe

• the Middle East

• South Asia

• Sub-Saharan Africa

Which region is represented in this image?

• Western Europe

• The Middle East

• North America

• East Asia

The increase in the number of humans during the Neolithic Revolution was primarily caused by

• the disappearance of epidemic disease

• the surplus of food

• a greater respect for the elderly

• decreased violence

A __________ has six important characteristics: cities, government, religion, social structure, writing, and art.

• money economy

• Coastlines

• Neolithic Revolution

• civilization