WorksheetsUnit Three: Prehistory and Mesopotamia
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 27mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Raising animals and plants for human use...
a)
Agriculture
b)
Agrarian
c)
Domestication
2.
Related to farming...
a)
Agrarian
b)
Agriculture
c)
Domestication
3.
The period of time before written records...
a)
Prehistory
b)
History
c)
Primary Source
4.
The written and recorded events of people...
a)
History
b)
Prehistory
c)
Primary Source
5.
A type of farming in which farmers grow just enough food to provide for themselves and their own families...
a)
Subsistence Agriculture
b)
Commercial Agriculture
c)
Archaeology
6.
A type of farming in which farmers produce food to sell...
a)
Commercial Agriculture
b)
Subsistence Agriculture
c)
Division of Labor
7.
The science of examining bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past people and cultures...
a)
Archaeology
b)
Artisan
c)
Prehistory
8.
A worker who is especially skilled in making something with their hand, such as baskets, leather goods, pottery, or tools...
a)
Artisan
b)
Scribe
c)
Hunter-gatherer
9.
form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent...
a)
Cuneiform
b)
Dialect
c)
Alphebet
10.
A regional variety of languages...
a)
Dialect
b)
Written language
c)
Cuneiform
11.
An arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job...
a)
Division of Labor
b)
Social Classes
c)
Division of Workers
12.
The taming/development of animals or plants for human use...
a)
Domestication
b)
Taming
c)
Raising
13.
An early human-like creature...
a)
Homo-Sapian
b)
Hominid
c)
Nomads
14.
Humans
a)
Homo-Sapians
b)
Hominids
c)
Nomads
15.
People who hunt animals or gather plants in the wild for food...
a)
Hunters-gatherers
b)
Hunters-planters
c)
Gatherers-Hunters
16.
A system of bringing water to fields in order to water crops...
a)
Irrigation
b)
Irritation
c)
Watering
17.
People who often move from place to place..
a)
Hunter-Gatherers
b)
Hominids
c)
Nomads
18.
Professional Writer...
a)
Scribe
b)
Nomad
c)
Dialect
19.
More of something than is needed; more than enough...
a)
Surplus
b)
Extra
c)
Ton
20.
A complex society with cities, a central government, and workers who specialize in certain jobs leading to social classes...
a)
Civilization
b)
Culture
c)
Community
21.
A group or class that is made up of living people with similar backgrounds, wealth, and ways of living...
a)
Social Class
b)
Division of Labor
c)
Civilization
22.
land or soil that contains substances plants need in order to grow well...
a)
Fertile
b)
Surplus
c)
Irrigation
23.
An artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic.
a)
Primary Source
b)
Secondary Source
c)
Historical Source
24.
a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere...
a)
Secondary Source
b)
Primary Source
c)
Historical Source
25.
Which is not one of the four characteristics of a civilization?
a)
Central Government
b)
Division of Labor
c)
Social Classes
d)
Must Migrate
26.
What is the name of the 5000 year old Iceman discovered in the Alps?
a)
Otzi
b)
Hammurabi
c)
Sargon
27.
What do we call it when you are passed down a story verbally?
a)
Oral Tradition
b)
Verbal Tradition
c)
Story
28.
What event marks the Old Stone Age?
a)
The invention of fire
b)
The invention of farming
c)
the invention of the wheel and axel
29.
What event marks the New Stone Age?
a)
The invention of farming
b)
The invention of fire
c)
The invention of the wheel and axel
30.
Fire allowed us...
a)
To migrate
b)
To settle where we were
c)
To start a civilization
31.
How does fire improve our diet?
a)
We can eat more and get rid of some food-borne illnesses
b)
Fire doesn't improve food.
c)
Fire did not improve our diet because we couldn't cook well and could not farm yet
32.
Farming...
a)
Allows us to settle
b)
Forces us to stay in Africa and not explore the world for some time
c)
Is much harder than hunting and gathering
33.
In what countries do we first see cities?
a)
Africa, Americas, and Asia
b)
Asia, Africa, and Europe
c)
Africa, Americas, and Europe
34.
The name of all of the cities in the Fertile Crescent are called...
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
Sumer
c)
Babylonia
35.
The first and most powerful city in Mesopotamia was?
a)
Sumer
b)
Babylonia
c)
Assyria
36.
The Fertile Crescent sits between what two rivers?
a)
Tigris and Euphrates
b)
Tigris and Nile
c)
Euphrates and Indus
37.
A city with its own traditions and its own government and laws...a city and a seperate independent state:
a)
City-States
b)
States-Cities
c)
Democracy
38.
Temples designed as a "ladder" so the Gods could hear us better:
a)
Ziggurats
b)
Sanctuary
c)
Ziggiehat
39.
What are the 4 classes of people in Sumer?
a)
Priests, Upper Class, Lower Class, Slaves
b)
Upper Class, Priests, Lower class, slaves
c)
Priests, Upper class, Slaves, Lower class
40.
Sumer falls in what year?
a)
1759 BC
b)
3500 BC
c)
3000 BC
41.
The Sumerians fell to...
a)
Babylonia
b)
Assyria
c)
Israel
42.
The first written and recorded laws were called...
a)
Hammurabi's Code
b)
Nebuchadnezzar's Code
c)
Sargon's Code
43.
Which empire will only last 38 years, from 650 BC to 612 BC?
a)
Assyria
b)
Babylonia
c)
Sumer
44.
The first ever written laws will follow this ideology:
a)
"An eye for an eye"
b)
"A pit for a pat"
c)
"A tooth for a tooth"
45.
When was cuneiform invented?
a)
3500 BC
b)
3000 BC
c)
1790 BC
46.
What was cuneiform written on?
a)
Clay Tablets
b)
Stone Tablets
c)
Paper
47.
This insect produces a purple dye that was very valuable to ancient Mesopotamians?
a)
Snails
b)
Spiders
c)
Silk Worms
48.
Mesopotamia will be a major sea power from what year to what year?
a)
1100 BC to 800 BC
b)
3500 BC to 3000 BC
c)
1100 BC to 700 BC
49.
What did the Phoenicians create?
a)
The 22-Symbol Alphebet
b)
The modern-day alphebet
c)
A new form of cuneiform
50.
Where did the Israelites settle?
a)
Canaan
b)
Babylonia
c)
Assyria
51.
The Israelites are the first to start what type of religion?
a)
monotheism
b)
polytheism
52.
What official religion is created in Jerusalem by the Israelites?
a)
Judaism
b)
Christianity
c)
Sikism
53.
What three kings are responsible for the success of the Israelites?
a)
Saul, David, Soloman
b)
Hammurabi, David, Soloman
c)
Hammurabi, Saul, Soloman
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