Social Studies End of Term Review

What do communities grow and raise on farms?

• Fruits and crops

• Fruits and vegetables

• Crops and animals

Early farms were very............

When did Egyptians develop the first irrigation system?

• 4000 BCE

• 5000 BCE

• 6000 BCE

Who invented the first true writing system?

• Egyptians

• Chinese

• Sumerians

The first writing system was called.....

• Numerals

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphics

Why did people develop number systems?

• To keep score in sports

• To use for house addresses

• For business

Why did early Sumerian and Babylonian people use a numeral system based on groups of 60?

• 60 is a great number

• 60 is in the 10 times tables

• 60 can be divided by many numbers

• 60 is an even number

What is the number system we use called?

• Arabic-English

• Hindu-Arabic

• Hindu-English

How did the Greeks first contribute to medicine?

• using steel tools for surgery

• understood that illnesses could be identified and treated

• wrote recipes for ailments

How did early Islamic people change medicine?

• provided free medical care at hospitals

• created recipes for 52 ailments

• made steel tools for surgery