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The First Civilizations Emerge on the World Stage (920L)

Total questions: 4

Worksheet time: 3600secs

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1.

Some civilizations were connected to others and some remained separate. Which section of the article BEST explains why?

a)

"Places of early civilizations"

b)

"Why and how did states emerge?"

c)

"Areas without early civilizations"

d)

"Comparing early agrarian civilizations"

2.

Choose the paragraph in the section "Why and how did states emerge?" that BEST shows the impact that animals had on the growth of civilization.

a)

paragraph 4

b)

paragraph 11

c)

paragraph 7

d)

paragraph 16

3.

Which answer choice is a summary of the section "Areas without early civilizations"?

a)

People farmed all over the world, but some places did not have the right resources to support large civilizations.

b)

The Bantu people were forced to travel by camel to trade, and they never developed a large civilization.

c)

Islands, even large ones like Australia, are not good places to try forming large civilizations.

d)

Scientists think that the Amazon River could have potentially supported civilizations.

4.

Which sentence BEST explains the main idea of the section "Comparing early agrarian civilizations"?

a)

Together they formed an Afro-Eurasian zone where people traded goods and exchanged ideas and technology.

b)

It seems centralized state control was needed to bring together and support large populations of people.

c)

Every civilization with writing started by using pictographs but switched to some form of alphabet — except the Chinese.

d)

While early civilizations shared many common features, the differences form a collage of human culture.