Final Review 2

What are the two main sources of the Nile River?

• the Upper Nile and the Lower Nile.

• the First Nile and the Second Nile.

• the Egyptian Nile and the Nubian Nile.

• the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

What is the climate of Northern China?

• Warm and wet

• Cool and dry

• Warm and dry

• Cool and wet

Why were the workers willing to do the dangerous, difficult work of building pyramids?

• They wanted to ensure pharaoh's place in the afterlife.

• They were slaves.

• They enjoyed physical challenges.

• It was the law.

Why were the Egyptians buried with their personal possessions?

• They believed they had to pay to get into the afterlife.

• To keep looters from robbing their homes.

• They believed they could not survive in the afterlife without them.

• To protect them from the gods.

Who predicted when the Nile River would probably flood?

• Astronomers

• Farmers

• Pharaohs

• Priestesses

Civilization developed in Mesopotamia because

• the Nile River made it a prosperous area.

• it was an important mining area.

• the area was difficult to defend.

• the rivers there created very rich soil.

Mesopotamia was located on land between

• the Nile and Tigris rivers.

• the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

• the Nile and Euphrates rivers.

• the Red Sea and the Tigris River.

Farmers in Sumer built irrigation ditches to

• control river floods.

• help catch fish.

• grow food.

• to create jobs.

Hammurabi’s Code was significant because

• it was part of the oral traditions of Babylonia.

• it was the first organized set of written laws.

• everyone in the ancient world followed it.

• the laws only applied to some of the people.

The Phoenician alphabet made it easier for people in the ancient world to

• hire scribes.

• learn to read and write.

• teach cuneiform.

• learn cuneiform.