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WorksheetsGrade 5-10 Social Studies History
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Pyramid shaped temple
Ziggurat
City-state
Code of Hammurabi
Cuneiform
Central city and its surrounding farmland
Ziggurat
City-state
Mesopotamia
Cultural Hearth
First known written laws
Ziggurat
Cuneiform
Code of Hammurabi
Epic of Gilgamesh
Where was the center of the Assyrian Empire?
Egypt
Israel
Northern Mesopotamia
Southern Mesopotamia
What other empire did the Assyrians battle throughout much of ancient history for control of Mesopotamia and the Middle East?
Sumerians
Persians
Egyptians
Babylonians
What Assyrian city held a famous library of thousands of clay tablets?
Babylon
Niveneh
Ashur
Nimrud
The Maya
had a system of writing like hieroglyphics that represented sounds and also had a system for numbers
spoke Nahuatl
spoke Quechua
built chinampas on Lake Texcoco
The Maya had a class system that divided people into different levels of society
True
False
In the Maya culture, priests were
not that important
the second to lowest class of society, above serfs
equal to farmers because there were so many of them
ranked just below the king and revered as equally as warriors
Why would the Maya make sacrifices to their gods?
to please the gods and get a good harvest
to use the temple
to establish the power of their city-state
Which of the following describes the Han government?
centralized
harsh ruling style
not harsh ruling style
incorporated the ideas of Confucious
All of the following are advancements and/or inventions made in Warfare
kites
fish scale armor
expanded their army
bamboo drills
The invention of paper improved Chinese writing by all of the following except
less expensive
more expensive
absorbed the ink better
easier to bind into a book
The Aztec Empire lived in central ___________.
Asia
Mexico
Panama
Cuba
Which of the following best describes the Aztec government?
a democracy with a president elected by the commoners
tribal groups with no central government
a collection of city-states, each with its own ruler
an empire united under a single ruler
