Social Studies Final

Scientists believe that the earliest humans evolved in and migrated from which continent? 

• Europe 
• North America 
• Asia 
• Africa 

One Way that farming changed the way people lived was____________________.

• They no longer were nomads
• Life expectancy was shorter
• They had to move around to new farms

What is another name for farming and domesticating animals?

• Planting
• Settling
• Agriculture
• Nomad

The plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called _____________.

• Egypt
• Indus Valley
• Mesopotamia
• Nile Valley

The Sumerians invented a form of writing called ____________.

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Alphabet
• Pictographs

When you dig a ditch in the ground to bring water from a river to another place.

• cuneiform
• artisan
• scribe
• irrigation

These were people who learned how to write and got jobs keeping records.

• scribes
• akkadians
• sumerians
• artisans

What is the famous river in Egypt?

• Tigris
• Euphrates
• Nile
• Hudson

The process of preserving a body for the afterlife

• Cremation
• Mummification
• Autopsy
• Surgery

What was an achievement of Egypt ?

• papyrus

• pharaohs

• Egypt

• cuneiform