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WorksheetsAncient History Chapter 02
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
Which of the following cities is NOT a city found in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Samaria
Nineveh
Ur
Babylon
What was the name of the people who lived in the southern section of Mesopotamia?
Acadians
Sumerians
Phoenicians
Egyptians
Which word means "land between two rivers"?
Mesopotamia
Hippotamia
Mesofluminibus
Mesotheleoma
What do we call a tiered, pyramid-shaped structure that formed a part of a Sumerian temple?
polytheism
diffusion
ziggurat
zignego
Which two groups occupied he top two levels of the Sumerian social pyramid?
kings & nobles
priests & laborers
merchants & soldiers
king & priests
Which of the following is NOT true of Hammurabi?
an able military leader
a noted Mesopotamian lawgiver
known as the father of cuneiform
administrator of the vast Babylonian empire
What happened to a boy if he strikes his father, according to Hammurabi's Code?
the boy would have his eyes plucked out.
the boy gets his hand cut off
the boy becomes the property of another master
the boy must tend to the crops for a year
Which of the following contains only the names of Ancient Egyptian gods?
Horus, Osiris, Isis
Horus, Apollo, Zeus
Osiris, Athena, Nike
Isis, Reuben, Hades
In Greek the word hieros means "sacred" and gluphē means...
writings.
chariot.
ruler.
river.
What proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?
The Alexandria Cipher
The Cairo Stone
The Behistun Rock
The Rosetta Stone
In the earliest form of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, a picture stood for...
a consonant.
a syllable.
an idea.
a day of the week.
Which of the following was NOT on the second level of the Ancient Egyptian social structure?
wealthy landowners (nobles)
priests
army commanders
merchants
For what do we remember the pharaoh known as Narmer?
He traded with people who lived in lower Egypt
He was the first to use hieroglyphics
He was the king who unified Egypt
He discovered the source of the Nile
Where would you find the sources of the Nile River?
in the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas
in the Ethiopian Highlands and Lake Victoria
in the Sahara and the Red Sea
in the delta region of Lower Egypt
Which important Egyptian language key is found in the British Museum in London?
The Rosetta Stone
The Decree of Memphis
The Ishtar Gate
King Nebuchadnezzar's Cipher
Which of the following was a city found by archaeologists in the Indus River valley?
Ganges
Harappa
Pashtun
Irawadi
Which of the following was a city found by archaeologists in the Indus River valley?
Pamir
Veda
Mohenjo-daro
Milano-drago
In which two mountain ranges does the Indus River begin?
Hindu Kush & Himalaya
Western Ghats & Ural
Caucasus & Zagros
Taurus & Kush Hindu
We know that the people of the Indus River valley must have traded with people who lived great distances from them because their seals made of stone and clay were found in...
Egypt.
Anatolian (Greece).
Sumer (Mesopotamia).
Iberia.
The people of the Indus River valley used ____?____ bricks to construct their buildings.
salt clay
Mesopotamian
black clay
uniformly sized
Which of the ancient civilizations designed their cities using a precise grid system?
Egyptian
Mesopotamian
Harappan
None of the others is correct
Which of the ancient civilizations could be considered as peaceful and not war-like from their archaeological remains?
Harappan
Egyptian
Mesopotamian
None. They were all war-like.
Which term?
characterized by extreme shallowness and a number of obstacles that make a river difficult to navigate
culture
ziggurat
delta
cataract
Which term?
the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia
delta
papyrus
cuneiform
hieroglyphics
Which term?
a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler
city-state
empire
region
cultural diffusion
Which term?
the belief in many gods
theocracy
monotheism
polytheism
empire
Which term?
the spreading of ideas or products from one group to another
trade
cultural diffusion
dynasty
monsoons
Which term?
a series of rulers from a single family
nepotism
theocracy
dynasty
city-state
Which term?
a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit
culture
dynasty
region
city-state
Which term?
a marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river
delta
cataract
silt
desert
Which term?
a government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure
theocracy
dynasty
monarchy
diffusion
Which term?
an Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
logogram
papyrus
hieroglyphics
cuneiform
Which term?
a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used to make a paper-like material for writing
cataract
monsoon
papyrus
cuneiform
Which term?
a fine, fertile soil carried in the water of rivers
silt
delta
cataract
monuments
Which term?
the bringing of water to crop fields by means of canals and ditches
fertilization
cataract
irrigation
hieroglyphics
Which term?
winds that shift in direction at certain times each year
irrigation
prevailing
westerlies
monsoons
Which term?
a large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent
subcontinent
plate
civilization
island
