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Ch. 2 Fertile Crescent

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a professional writer

a)

artisan

b)

scribe

c)

merchant

d)

polytheist

2.

city that is also a seperate, independent state

a)

myth

b)

regional city

c)

city state

d)

civilization

3.

belief in many gods

a)

polytheism

b)

monotheism

c)

alphatheism

d)

religion

4.

region in S.W. Asia, site of 1st civilizations

a)

Phoenicia

b)

Persia

c)

Fertile Crescent

d)

Asia Minor

5.

Many territories controlled by one government

a)

city state

b)

civilization

c)

region

d)

empire

6.

market selling different kinds of goods

a)

stoa

b)

bazaar

c)

caravan

d)

farmer

7.

group of travers journeying together

a)

quest

b)

caravan

c)

bazaar

d)

trek

8.

an organized list of laws is;

a)

commandment

b)

cuneiform

c)

code

d)

diaspora

9.

group of lines and wedges used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent

a)

pictographs

b)

cuneiform

c)

ideograms

d)

alphabet

10.

creator of the Babylonian empire king from 1792-1750 BCE

a)

Hammurabi

b)

Sargon of Akkad

c)

Gilgamesh

d)

Nebuchadnezzar

11.

religion developed in ancient Persia;

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Mithraism

d)

Zoroastrianism

12.

a set of symbols that represent the sounds of a language;

a)

cuneiform

b)

runes

c)

alphabet

d)

script

13.

a time when there is little food so many people starve;

a)

drought

b)

plague

c)

diaspora

d)

famine

14.

to force someone to live in another country;

a)

exile

b)

famine

c)

migration

d)

immigrate

15.

a belief in one god

a)

philosophy

b)

polytheism

c)

monotheism

d)

religion

16.

a binding agreement ;

a)

covenant

b)

coven

c)

famine

d)

diaspora

17.

Israelite leader credited with leading his people out of Egypt;

a)

Noah

b)

Abraham

c)

Jacob

d)

Moses

18.

religious leader who speaks for a god;

a)

philosopher

b)

prophet

c)

vizier

d)

artisan