Unit 1: Neolithic Revolution and Mesopotamian Empires

Which term best describes humans moving from hunting-gathering to farming and settled villages?

• Paleolithic Tradition

• Bronze Age Trade

• Urbanization Cycle

• Neolithic Revolution

In the Old Stone Age, people primarily lived as which of the following?

• Imperial rulers

• City artisans

• Sedentary farmers

• Nomadic foragers

Which belief that natural objects have spirits was common in early human societies?

• Animism

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Atheism

Domesticating plants and animals most directly led to which result in early villages?

• Food surpluses

• Decline of trade

• Immediate empires

• Fewer tools

Catal Huyuk is best identified as which of the following?

• Nomadic confederation

• Desert caravan

• Neolithic settlement

• Bronze Age empire

Which development most clearly marks the Neolithic era?

• Agriculture and settlement

• Iron smelting expansion

• Writing law codes

• Monotheistic worship

Match each Mesopotamian term with its description.

• Earliest city-states region

• Sumer

• Terraced temple platform

• Theocracy

• Rule by religious authority

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

• Heroic narrative poem

• Ziggurat

• Wedge-shaped writing system

• Cuneiform

Which statement best explains why surpluses mattered in early civilizations?

• They supported specialization

• They ended religious rituals

• They stopped long-distance trade

• They replaced irrigation canals

Which leader is most associated with a famous law code in Babylon?

• Hammurabi

• Sargon I

• Darius I

• Cyrus the Great

Sargon I is best known for which accomplishment in Mesopotamia?

• Creating one of the first empires

• Founding a seafaring network

• Writing the earliest script

• Building the largest ziggurat