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WorksheetsRivery Valley Vocab #1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A region in southwest Asia; site of the world's first civilizations.
a)
Fertile Crescent
b)
Iraq
c)
Nomadic Life
d)
Finger Lakes
2.
A city that is also a separate, independent state.
a)
Country
b)
City-Country
c)
New York City
d)
City-state
3.
Belief in only one god.
a)
Oneotheism
b)
Monotheism
c)
Polytheism
4.
Capital of the Babylonian Empire and a city of great wealth, luxury and power.
a)
Babble-on
b)
Sumer
c)
Babylon
d)
Albany
5.
Many territories and peoples controlled by one government.
a)
Country
b)
Empire
c)
Empire Strikes Back
d)
Neolithic
6.
Belief in more than one god.
a)
Manytheism
b)
Monotheism
c)
Polytheism
d)
Multitheism
7.
A group of travelers that are traveling together.
a)
Sumerians
b)
Neanderthals
c)
Caravan
d)
Dodge Caravan
8.
A time when there is so little food that many people stave.
a)
Famine
b)
Stave
c)
Lunch
d)
Disease
9.
King of the Babylonian Empire, he was the first ruler to write out a code of laws and post them for his subjects.
a)
Sargon
b)
Hammurabi
c)
Finguerabbi
d)
Capricorn
10.
Groups of symbols that were lines and wedge shapes; it was used to write many languages in the Fertile Crescent.
a)
Hieroglyphics
b)
Cuneiform
c)
Cursive
d)
English
11.
A hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds
a)
Assyrians
b)
astronomers
c)
Gilgamesh
d)
Nineveh
12.
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
a)
ziggurat
b)
scribe
c)
pyramid
d)
Nineveh
13.
What was the name for a person who could read and write in Sumer?
a)
king
b)
government official
c)
scribe
d)
writer
14.
What civilization was led by Sargon and was located north of Sumer?
a)
The Akkadians
b)
Egypt
c)
Babylonia
d)
Sinai Penninsula
15.
River Valleys were a good place for civilizations to grow because they offered
a)
religion
b)
rich soils for agriculture
c)
government
d)
401k's
16.
The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was
a)
between two rivers.
b)
in mountain foothills.
c)
near a region of many conflicts
d)
at the site of the earliest cities
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