World History Summer School Quiz #7

Which was one of the first river valley civilizations nestled on the banks of the Nile River Valley?

• Ancent Rome

• Ancient Egypt

• Ancient India

• Anceient Greece

The Nile’s annual flooding deposited rich, dark soil on the riverbanks. This land was called ____________ “black land”.

• Osiris

• Horus

• Kemet

• Isis

The succession of rulers from the same family

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Dynasty

The title given to ancient Egyptian kings.

• Pharoah

• Sphinx

• Dynasty

• Egyptians

Egypt was ruled by thirty-one (31) different dynasties over about 3000 years, divided into ___________ period.

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

An adult who rules in the place of a ruler who is a child and inherited a kingdom too young, a ruler who is absent, or a ruler who is disabled.

• Advocate

• King

• Regent

• Dynasty

The people from West Africa moved slowly toward the south and east of the African continent. They were fishermen and farmers. Each generation moved farther than the last to find more fertile land and better grazing for their animals.

• The Kingdom of Kush

• Carthage

• The Bantu

• The Nok

It is most powerful between 2000 to 1500BCE., it was an African Civilization located on the Nile River south of Egypt. At first, it was under Egyptian Rule. Its major city was Meroe, which was the main residence of the rulers. They were farmers turned traders.

• Carthage

• The Bantu

• The Nok

• The Kingdom of Kush

They lived to the South and West of the Sahara Desert in approximately 500 BCE. Each town had its own King, who ruled over communities of large families. They worked as farmers, merchants, metalworkers, and craft workers specializing in clay figures.

• The Nok

• The Kingdom of Kush

• The Bantu

• Carthage

A city founded by the Phoenicians around about 800BCE on the coast of North Africa. It became a large trading empire with colonies near and far, like in Spain and Sicily.

• The Bantu

• The Nok

• The Kingdom of Kush

• Carthage