retakable quiz of early unit 1 content, Mesopotamia, & hammurabi

The Change from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic age was due to

• an ice age

• humans discovering fire

• farming

• nomadic hunting and gathering

What modern nation was known as "mesopotamia" in ancient days

• Turkey

• Iran

• Greece

• Iraq

What natural resource did Sumerians write upon and what was the writing called

• Clay, Cuneiform

• Paper, Alphabet

• Paper, Hieroglyphics

• Stone, Hieroglyphics

The rights of women were generally protected by the code of Hammurabi and men and women had equal consequences for breaking of the same laws.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The earliest civilization of Mesopotamia were the Sumerians who lived in independent, city-states that warred against other city-states and were not unified.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A notable characteristic of the Paleolithic people was

• their having a concept of ownership of property.

• their unhealthy diet which led to them dying sooner.

• the long hours spent each day to get food.

• their nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering.

What direction does the Nile River flow?

• East

• North

• Up-stream

• South

The gentleness of this river may have influenced the people's religious views of their gods as being kind and considerate of humankind.

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Mediterranean

• Nile

The Egyptians built large pyramids as a way to worship (like a temple).

• TRUE

• FALSE

Many of the Ancient Civilizations we have studied kept track of business transactions and had pictograms. Which of the characteristics of a civilization would these examples most precisely demonstrate?

• complex institutions

• advanced cities

• record keeping

• job specialization