WorksheetsWHAP Unit 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following best describes the significance of legal codes to early civilizations?
They reflected and reinforced existing social and political hierarchies.
They granted citizens the right to choose their rulers and representatives.
They effectively settled disputes between pastoralist and agrarian communities.
They facilitated the introduction of monotheistic religions.
What is this?
Popul Vuh
The Code of Hammurabi
A ziggarat
Ethical Monotheism
The relationship between Hammurabi and Shamash as depicted in the image best illustrates which of the following features of ancient civilizations.
Rulers claimed that their authority derived directly from divine power.
Rulers created new religions to unify conquered peoples.
Rulers asserted that royal laws were superior to diving laws.
Rulers deferred to the priestly class for religious guidance
Varna is the Aryan term for
Social Class
A destroyer god
A code of behavior
Sum of one's deeds
Which civilization MOST LIKELY created the sculpture in the image above?
Maya
Teotihuacan
Olmecs
Mohica
One similarity between the Bantu migration and the Aryan migration is
Both had religious beliefs that influenced the creation of monotheistic religions where they settled.
Both experienced cultural diffusion with other groups they encountered.
Neither transmitted a language to the civilizations they encroached on.
Both were dissolved into the civilizations they encroached on.
Which of the following is a major geographic difference between the river civilizations?
Unlike the other civilizations, Indian agriculture struggled due to unpredictable monsoon rains.
Unlike the other civilizations, China utilized vast deserts to prevent unwanted invasion.
Unlike the other civilizations, Egypt benefited from regular and predictable flooding of the river valley.
Unlike the other civilizations, Mesopotamia was rarely attacked due to natural barriers.
Which rulers were strengthened by their control over the technological advantage of bronze?
Xia
Shang
Zhou
Phonetians
The Mesopotamian style of writing was known as
demotic.
cuneiform.
alphabetic.
hieroglyphs.
Which of the following accurately describes a difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Age
The Paleolithic Age people used agriculture and in the Neolithic they used pastorialism c
The Paleolithic Age they developed social classes and in the Neolithic they had no classes
The Paleolithic Age both genders were equally valued and in the Neolithic they were patriarchal
The Paleolithic Age people used stone tools and in the Neolithic they used Iron
