WorksheetsCharacteristics of Civilization Quiz
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 28mins
Based on the source in the image, what characteristic is best shown?
System of Tribute
Government and Laws
Job Specialization
Infrastructure
Based on the source in the image, what characteristic is best shown?
Government and Laws
Social Structure
Belief System and Religion
Infrastructure
Having access to more food than a civilization needs, which allows them to trade and exchange goods
Arts
Economy
Surplus Food
Trade
The belief system of a civilization including who they worship
Religion
Economy
Accumulated Knowledge/Learnign
System of Tribute
The power that has control over certain areas, making the rules and laws for society to abide by
Infrastructure
Surplus Food
System of Tribute
Government
An exchange of goods or services in return for something else
Job Specialization
Trade
Technology
Social Classes
The creative and cultural expression of a civilization
System of Tribute
Economy
Infrastructure
Arts
The physical foundations of a civilization, including buildings, bridges, roads, waterways, and more
Surplus Food
Infrastructure
Economy
Social CLasses
The organization of citizens within a civilization, dividing people based on their wealth, religion, or power
Job Specialization
Infrastructure
Social Classes
System of Tribute
Focusing on one career in order to become highly skilled in that area
Accumulated Knowledge/Learning
Arts
Religion
Job Specialization
The tools used in a civilization to help them become more successful
Technology
System of Tribute
Trade
Social Classes
What characteristic of a civilization does the image above show?
Government/Social Classes
Religion
System of Tribute
Arts
Because the Inca did not know science, they had to attach powers to natural resources and worshipped such things as water streams or rocks, animals, and almost anything related to nature. This is an example of _________________?
Arts
Surplus food
Religion
System of Tribute
The pyramids of Ancient Egypt demonstrated the religious devotion of Egyptians and the power of their government.
Public Works
Art and Architecture
Cities and Agriculture
Central Government
The first written records were created by the Mesopotamians and were known as cuneiform.
Writing System
Religion
Public Works
Central Government
Which of the following shows evidence of a Stable Food Supply?
Hanging Gardens
Many gods with human personalities
Taxes
An irrigation system with canals and levees
Which of the following shows evidence of writing in Sumer?
clay tablets
ziggurats with images of gods
chariots
the ship's sail
Having more food than you need
trade
written language and learning
art
surplus of food
Inventions that make life easier
system of tribute
technology
religion
surplus of food
The time before people invented writing.
Civilization
Architecture
Prehistoric
Post Historic
Making characters or letters to communicate.
Writing
Speaking
Squirrel
Government
Interesting things to look at, created with skill and imagination.
Government
Video Games
Books
Art
A place where many people live and work, bigger than towns or villages.
Cities
Government
Neolithic
Paleolithic
The ‘new stone age’ when people made more useful stone tools as well as developed farming.
Neolithic
Paleolithic
Cities
Social Class
Where did civilizations settle down by?
Highways
Water
Soil deposits
Volcanic sites
Which Characteristic of a civilization is exemplified by the following description?
Exchange of a good or service for something else (typically a monetary exchange); goods must be moved easily (e.g., via waterways or roads); a food surplus results in trade opportunities
Surplus food
Planned infrastructure
Trade
Accumulated learning
Achievements in communication, math, science, and technology are made by
a food surplus.
collecting taxes.
building roads.
gathering knowledge.
Which characteristic of civilizations does this depict?
Language / Writing Systems
Religion
Government
Technology
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that all civilizations share?
Religion
Job Specialization
Technology
Population
This feature freed people from doing every task
and allowed them to do the work they were good at.
Job Specialization
Writing System
Religion
Government
What is one NEGATIVE effect of urbanization?
People were protected by the walls in the city.
They had easier access to the surplus of food due to irrigation.
Cities were often overcrowded and disease spread rapidly.
Everything people needed was in walking distance.
Sumerians invented the plow to help them gather crops. This affected which characteristics?
religion
written language
arts and entertainment
stable food supply
Which of the following civilizations developed between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Greece
China
Israel
A complex society that has cities, a well-organized government and workers
hunters and gatherers
a civilization
a village
reason for why early civilizations were located in river valleys?
Those who learned how to write and became record keepers.
Scribes
Merchants
This picture shows an area known as the ...
Fertile Curve
Fertile Crescent
Green Region
What's one thing farmers definitely need?
Stone tools
Fire
Celery
Water
Why did early hunters live near rivers?
There were a lot of thirsty animals to hunt
So they could farm easily
So they could travel easily
It was a scenic landscape
Which of these factors helped humans develop a stable food supply?
The sheer amount of edible animals that were available
Ancient methods for keeping raw meat fresh
Excellent hunting equipment like spears and bows and arrows
The domestication (taming) of plants and animals
What is domestication?
the process of changing plants/animals to make them more useful to humans
farming
creation of something
movement of people
Which society changed plants and animals for human use and settled in permanent locations?
Hunter-Gatherer
Early Agriculture
What reflects a person's knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values?
Agriculture
Culture
Domestication
Artifact
________________ is a signficant trait of a civilization because it keeps people safe and peaceful.
Laws/Government
Arts & Culture
War
Writing
