Benchmark Ancient Civilizations Review

The two rivers that defined the civilization of Mesopotamia were called __

• The Tigris & Euphrates
• The Nile & Mississippi
• The Tigris & Nile
• There weren't rivers

A leader of Egypt that was both god and king

• Ziggurat
• A Pharaoh 

What is the first written language of Ancient India.

• Papyrus
• Cunieform
• Sanskrit
• English

What is the religion that believes in one supreme spirit called a Brahman?

• Hinduism
• Catholic
• Jewish
• Polythestic

A family of rulers is called a __

• Mummy
• Dynasty
• Kingdom
• Summerians

Ancient Sumerian writing is called __

• Cunieform
• Sanskrit 
• Hieroglyphics 
• Papyrus

What ruler is credited with having the first written laws?

• Hammurabi
• King Tut
• George Washington
• Ms. Castillo

What were people called who were trained to write?

• Scribes
• Writers
• Ms. Flannigan
• Pictionary

Ancient history is defined as

• anything before 1900

• the study of the first civilizations that wrote and kept records

• prehistory

• the study of ancient Egypt and Rome

What is the difference between prehistory and ancient history?

• Prehistory is anything in the BC era.

• Ancient history is anything in the BC era.

• Ancient history is anything before the fall of the Roman empire.

• There is a written record of the ancient period but not the prehistory period.