World History Honors Review: Chapters 1-7

The term prehistory refers to the period before what?

• Agriculture

• Horse-Riding

• Writing

• Fire

People in the Paleolithic Age were

• Scribes

• Hunters & Gatherers

• Iron workers

  
  

• Farmers

“New stone age”; early stages of agricultural society

• River Civilizations

• Industrial

• Paleolithic

• Neolithic

Where was the first complex society developed?

• Kush

• Sumer

• Palestine

• Babylon

The civilization of Sumer developed

• between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

• in the present day country of Israel.

• in Egypt.

• along the Nile River.

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Ziggurat

• Stele

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphs

Punishments under the Code of Hammurabi

• did not apply to the upper class.

• did not cover domestic/family concerns.

• stressed reform rather than retribution for crimes.

• were based on retribution.

Which of the following is NOT true of Hammurabi's laws?

• It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.

• It was used by many later civilizations as a model

• The laws are written in stone.

• It treated all people the same under the law.

What was the main religion of the Mesopotamians?

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

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

• because the land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.