Exam 1 Practice Quiz

Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

• because the women had a lot of babies

• because the animals had a lot of babies

• because the moon was in a crescent form all of the time

• The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.

What is polytheism?

• an amphibian with many legs

• the worship of many gods

• the worship of one god

• the worship of no god/gods

What did a scribe do?

• He wrote for the king and government officials.

• He wrote stories.

• He told stories.

• He was in charge of collecting the taxes.

What is a ziggurat?

• a tomb for the king

• a temple where the priests worshiped their gods

• a temple where the priests performed human sacrifices

• a Mesopotamian cigarett.

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

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

The longest river in the world; associated with Ancient Egypt.

• Tigris River

• Nile River

• Amazon River

• Niger River

A dynasty is a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed down through heredity.

• True

• False

Name given to Egyptian rulers who held absolute power and were regarded as divine or god-like.

• President

• Czar

• Pharaoh

• Consul