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WorksheetsWH - VOCAB Quiz - Foundations of Civilizations - Part 1
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The major change in human life caused by the beginning of farming – that is, by people’s shift from food gathering to food producing.
a)
Neolithic Revolution
b)
Cultural Diffusion
c)
Monotheism
d)
Polytheism
2.
The spreading of idea or products from one culture to another.
a)
Neolithic Revolution
b)
Cultural Diffusion
c)
Monotheism
d)
Polytheism
3.
Means “land between the rivers” & is often called the “Fertile Crescent” or as the “Cradle of Civilization”
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
Hammrabi's Code
c)
Judaism (Hebrews)
d)
Hieroglyphics
4.
First legal code had 282 laws based on justice & retaliation (an eye for an eye); had different punishments for the various levels of society.
a)
Pharaohs
b)
Hammrabi's Code
c)
Judaism (Hebrews)
d)
Cuneiform
5.
A belief in a single god.
a)
Neolithic Revolution
b)
Cultural Diffusion
c)
Monotheism
d)
Polytheism
6.
A belief in many gods.
a)
Polytheism
b)
Heiroglyphics
c)
Judaism (Hebrews)
d)
Monothesim
7.
In Palestine were the 1st monotheistic faith in history.
a)
Pharaohs
b)
Cultural Diffusion
c)
Judaism (Hebrews)
d)
Cultural Diffusion
8.
A system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols invented by the Sumerians around 3000 BC.
a)
Cuneiform
b)
Hieroglyphics
c)
Pharaohs
d)
Phoenicians
9.
A seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 BC began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean regions.
a)
Pharaohs
b)
Judaism (Hebrews)
c)
Phoenicians
d)
Mesopotamia
10.
A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.
a)
Pharaohs
b)
Phoenicians
c)
Judaism (Hebrews)
d)
Cultural Diffusion
11.
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
a)
Cuneiform
b)
Heiroglyphics
c)
Monotheism
d)
Polytheism
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