Asia Quiz 4: Exploration & Migration

Researchers have extracted DNA from human teeth and bones buried in Asia for _______.

• over 10,000 years

• over 8,000 years

• around 5,000 years

• around 25,000 years

Some of the first to migrate to Asia were _____.

• descendants of people who left North America 50,000 years ago

• descendants of people who left South America 25,000 years ago

• descendants of people who who left Antarctica 100,000 years ago

• descendants of people who left Africa 60-70 thousand years ago

What percentage of the world's population lives in the Asia-Pacific region?

• 75%

• almost 25%

• over 50%

• nearly 90%

Some of the world's earliest civilizations developed in Asia along which rivers? PICK 2

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Amur and Yangtze

• Ganges and Mekong

• Indus and Yellow

The world's first civilization, located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, was called ______.

• Harappan

• Mesopotamia

• Hoabinia

• Cuneiform

People of Mesopotamia learned to do redirect water to crops, leading to agriculture. What other technologies did this give rise to? PICK 2

• metalworking

• the wheel

• the camera

• printing press

This is one of the world's first writing systems, developed by the Mesopotamians.

• Hyeroglyphics

• Alphabetic

• Cuneiform

• Anotolian

How were letters made in cuneiform?

• by writing in the mud with sticks

• by pressing a reed into clay

• by paint made from berries

• by using charcoal left from fires

This was the second major Ancient Asian civilization.

• the Hoabinhians

• the Harappans

• the Mesopotamians

• the Shangs

The Harappans developed an advanced city with all except ____.

• planned streets

• homes with bathrooms

• trash bins along streets

• school or similar buildings for education