Semester Review of Ancient Civilizations

___________ was located in the Fertile Crescent.

• Indus Valley

• Mesopotamia
• Egypt
• Greece

An epic poem from Mesopotamia describes the life of a legendary king named __________.

• Sargon
• Nebachadnezzar 
• Gilgamesh
• Cleopatra

Mesopotamia was known as the ___________.

• land between two rivers
• the valley of Kings

• the home of the Egyptians
• the land on the mountain

Worshipping multiple gods or deities.

• Polytheistic
• Monotheistic

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets - writing system of Sumerians.

• Hieroglyphics

• Logograph

• Code of Hammurabi
• Cuneiform

a strict and harsh set of laws in ancient Mesopotamia

• Polytheistic
• Ziggurat
• Code of Hammurabi
• Cuneiform

Since the Egyptians believed that the other self or spirit of a dead person lived in the corpse (dead body) during the afterlife, what process was developed to preserve the corpse?

• mummification

• Egyptology

• desertification

• irrigation

How did increased food supply allow some people to become merchants or artists instead of farmers?

• There were fewer people to feed so less farmers were necessary.

• People could engage in other activities like handicrafts because not as many farmers were needed.

• People could farm at the same time they learned other skills.

• People didn't eat as much food in Egypt.

An independent city, with its own government and culture, surrounded by farmland

• city-state
• country
• continent
• New York City

This war was fought between Athens and Sparta.

• Dorian
• Revolutionary
• Peloponnesian 
• Civil