Ancient Civilization Review Quiz

The Sumerians eventually started making a new metal made by mixing copper and tin. This began and new age known as the:

• Steel Age

• Neolithic Age

• Bronze Age

• Iron Age

The first people to develop a writing system were the

• Greeks

• Romans

• Chinese

• Sumerians

The area of rich farmland around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was settled by the world's first civilization is known as the

• Golden Gourd

• Fertile Crescent

• The Indus River Valley

• The Nile

This area of the Fertile Crescent where the cities of Ur, Babylon, and Akkad were located in known as "the land between the two rivers"

• Mesopotamia

• Indo-European

• The Caucus Mountains

• Disney world

Human made objects (such as tools and jewelry) help us understand what life was like for people in the past. These objects are known as:

• Artifacts

• Culture

• Technology

• Antiques

Which continent did humans originate from?

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

• Europe

The Indus Valley city of Mohenjo Daro had sewers with running water

• True

• False

Early humans first arrived in the Americas by

• Ships across the Atlantic looking for land

• The slave trade during the 1500s

• Walking across the land bridge from Asia

• Ships that brought the pilgrims from England

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are all types of

• Sumerian rivers

• Greek building columns

• Roman weapons

• Egyptian pyramids

Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle are all famous Greek

• Kings

• Philosophers

• Warriors

• Ninja Turtles