Unit 1: Ancient Civilizations

What is the written language of the Sumerians?

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Pictographs
• Hiretic

What set of laws did the Babylonians create?

• Hammurabi's Code
• Book of the Dead
• Twelve Tables
• Code of Ur

Which feature was most important to the development of civilization in ancient Egypt?

• Defensive position surrounded by the desert

• Annual flooding of the Nile River

• Access to trade routes that crossed the continent

• Cultural contacts with Greek city-states

Created fire. Hunted. Gathered. 

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic

Farmed. Domesticated animals. 

• Paleolithic
• Neolithic

What is the belief in multiple gods?

• Monotheism
• Polytheism

What is the written language of the Sumerians?

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Pictographs
• Hiretic

This was the justification Chinese Emperors used to rule. It stated that if everything in China was going well, then the gods wanted the emperor to rule.

• Mandate of Heaven

• Mask Mandate

• The Dynastic Cycle

• Mandate of the Middle Kingdom

The Egyptians wrote in which writing system?

• Hieroglyphics

• Oracle Bones

• Cuneiform

• Harappan Script

One of the great achievements of the Indus Valley civilization was _____.

• sophisticated plumbing and sewage systems

• the invention of the chariot

• iron technology

• a number system