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WH1 Timeline to 500BC

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Where did Homo Sapiens first appear?
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
East Africa
c)
Southeast Asia
d)
Southwest Europe
2.
Neanderthals lived about how many years ago BC?
a)
5,000 
b)
10,000
c)
30,000
d)
300,000
3.
Which is the oldest civilization?
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
India 
c)
China 
d)
Egypt
4.
Which religion is the oldest?
a)
Hinduism
b)
Buddhism
c)
Islam
d)
Judaism
5.
Which writing system followed Cuneiform?
a)
Hieroglphics
b)
Oracle Bones
c)
Phoenician Alphabet
d)
Sanskrit
6.
Which empire did not fight the others?
a)
Roman
b)
Hittites
c)
Assyrians
d)
Babylonians
7.
The land of Canaan is located-
a)
In Persia
b)
In the Fertile Cresent
c)
North Coast of Africa
d)
Asia Minor
8.
Which empire does not belong during the period of around 2,000 BC?
a)
Babylonian
b)
Persians
c)
Shang in China
d)
Minoans 
9.
Aryans that invaded the Indus River Valley came from which direction through the Khyber Pass?
a)
Northeast
b)
Southeast
c)
Northwest
d)
Southwest
10.
The Nile River flows into the -
a)
Red Sea
b)
Mediterranean Sea
c)
Persian Gulf 
d)
Indian Ocean
11.
Written language developed before the Agricultural Revolution?
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Most people were monotheistic before they were polytheistic?
a)
True
b)
False
13.
The first Ziggurats were built around 1,200 BC
a)
True
b)
False
14.
The Trojan War was much earlier than the Persian War?
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Which group of people were the first to be recognized for their plumbing?
a)
Greeks
b)
Babylonians
c)
Indus River People
d)
Chinese