Ancient Civilization Review

What common geographic feature do the ancient civilizations we studied all have (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China)?

• Mountain range
• Desert
• Tropical rainforest
• Major river

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• Land between the rivers
• Land of the Pharaohs
• City of Gold
• Mountain of the Gods

What was the ancient writing of the Sumerians?

• braille
• runes
• hieroglyphics
• cuneiform

What was the ancient writing of the Egyptians?

• Runes
• Cuneiform
• Alphabet
• Hieroglyphics

Which is a form of government where priests are rulers in the name of god?

• Theocracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Autocracy

Which type of religion believes in more than one god?

• Monotheistic
• Pantheistic
• Atheistic
• Polytheistic

Which is the name for an ancient independent city that is sometimes surrounded by land?

• territorial-town
• city-state
• isolated-city
• land-state

What is the name for an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower?

• pyramid
• obelisk
• sphinx
• ziggurat

What was the first written law code often referred to as the source of "an eye for an eye."

• Code of Hammurabi
• Code of Draco
• Code of Justinian
• Code of Ur-Nammu

Which was the artifact found and used to help historians decipher ancient heiroglyphics?

• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Rosetta Stone
• Stonehenge
• Mayan Calendar