World History A Unit 1 Test Review

The _______ created cuneiform by pressing a wedge-shaped stylus into clay tablets.

• Sumerians

• Egyptians

• Phoenicians

• Babylonians

The first dynasty in China to use iron was the __________.

• Zhou

• Shang

• Qin

• Han

The Egyptian buried all their dead in the pyramids.

• True

• False

The __________ Revolution enabled humans to develop civilizations.

• Neolithic

• Industrial

• Scientific

• Digital

During which kingdom did the Pharaohs build the first pyramids?

• Middle Kingdom

• New Kingdom

• Old Kingdom

• Lost Kingdom

_____ ruled over the Babylonian Empire and established a code of law that had application for everyone.

• Shang

• Sargon

• Nafutia

• Hammurabi

The main source of historical records for the Vedic civilization was ______.

• high culture

• the Watchmaker analogy

• the Gregorian calendar

• the Vedas

Crops were first harvested in _____ at Tell Abu Hureyra.

• Natufia

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• Anatolia

Flooding was important to which civilization?

• Egyptian

• Indus-Sarasvati

• Vedic

• Shang

Prehistory is the period before __________ and __________.

• the invention of writing; the keeping of historical records

• the use of bronze and iron tools; the use of advanced farming techniques

• the use of stone tools; the use of advanced farming techniques

• the invention of writing; the use of bronze and iron tools