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WorksheetsAncient history quiz for leibner
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
What was the invention that allowed humans to create the first civilizations?
Writing
Toolmaking
Agriculture
Fire
Where was the first civilization?
The Mississippi river
Messopatamia
Egypt
The Indus river valley
Mesopatamia means,"between two rivers" What two rivers does the name refer to?
The Euphrates
The Tigris
The Nile
The Jordan
What material was used for the first metal tools?
Bronze
Tin
Iron
Copper
What replaced copper as a material for tool making?
Tin
Lead
Iron
Bronze
What two materials make up bronze
Tin
Zinc
Copper
Silver
Egypt was centered around which river?
The Indus
The Rhone
The Nile
The Rubicon
Who was the prophet of judaism?
Muhhamad
Abraham
Zoroaster
Jesus
What made the nile river so fertile?
It's water moved at a fast speed allowing for more nutrients to enter the soil
It's flooding was predictable which allowed for farmers to take advantage of the incredibly rich nutrients carried by the water
There were large deposits of minerals built up on the bank of the river that eroded into the water which made the surrounding soil fertile
Who led the Isrealites out of Egypt
Abraham
Zeus
Moses
Jesus
What made the sea peoples so devestating to the bronze age civilizations? Select all that apply.
Their quick shock tactics made them effective against chariots commonly used by bronze age civilizations
Their iron weapons were supperior to the bronze weopons of the time
Their large level of organization
Their Chariots were more sturdily made than those of the civilizations at the time
What were the results of the bronze age collapse? Select all that apply.
Cities disappeard off of the map
Writing almost totally vanished and led to the deepest dark age civilization has ever seen
Nearly every civilization in the Bronze age world was destroyed
A New wave of intelectualism followed
What material began to replace bronze following the collapse?
Silver
Iron
Lead
Stone
Who wrote the Illiad and the odyssey?
Plato
Diogenes
Aristotle
Homer
What was the setting of the Illiad
The Macedonian conquest of Greece
The Greco persian wars
The Pelopenesian war
The Trojan war
Ancient Greece was a unified country with Athens as it's capital.
True
False
The ancient Greeks were...
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
Who was the king of the gods in Greek mythology
Zeus
Chronos
Posideon
Athena
What began the Greco Persian wars
The battle of Troy
Th Ionian revolt
The battle of marathon
The battle of salimus
What was the battle where Athenian troops suprised a landing persian army and decimated them because they were informed by a runner who ran 150 miles to tell them they had no reinforcement and must attack?
Platea
Thermopylae
Salimus
Marathon
Who won the Grecco Persian wars
Persia
Greece
What was the alliance of Greek city states formed around Athens following the Greco Persian wars
The 1st Coalition
The Holy League
The Delian League
The Hanseatic league
What was the conflict that was a result of tensions between Sparta and the Delian league
The Pelopenesian war
The Grecco persian war
The Thebean wars
The Macedonian wars
Who won the Pelopenesian war?
Athens
Sparta
What was the famous battle where 300 Spartans and a multitude of other Greek auxilary troops fought against an army of Persians at a narrow mountain pass known as the "hot gates"?
Marathon
Troy
Salamus
Thermopylae
