Unit 1 Civilizations test review

Why is it important for people (especially farmers) to settle near rivers & streams?

• To grow crops

• To have a water supply

• For irrigation

• All of the above

What is the area called between the Tigris and Euphrates River?

• Egypt

• China

• Mesopotamia

• India

How did the Sumerians communicate?

• Talking

• Cuneiform

• Dancing

• War

What does monotheistic mean?

• Belief in many gods

• Belief in family

• Belief in food

• Belief in one god

Which term means "belief in many gods"

• monotheistic

• polytheistic

• cultural diffusion

• ethnocentrism

What were the temples called in Sumer?

• Buildings

• Ziggarauts

• Churches

• Cathedrals

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Ninevah

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

Why was ancient Egypt known as the “Gift of the Nile”?

• Egyptian civilization evolved from the kingdom of Kush, which had been established previously along the Upper Nile.

• The regular flooding of the Nile and its abundant silt deposits were especially conducive to the growth of agriculture.

• Early Egyptian creation myths were monotheistic, centering on the worship of a river god who was considered the embodiment of the Nile.

• Later empires that conquered Egypt gave it the derisive name in reference to their plundering of Egyptian palaces and tombs.