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In Class Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Food surpluses in the Neolithic Farming Village … 

a)

Made the village susceptible to raids from nomadic tribes

b)

Were not stored properly and spoiled, so people starved to death

c)

Made it possible for people to do things other than farming 

d)

Caused the entire population to become obese

2.

Having sufficient food caused an end to: 

a)

The Ice Age

b)

The New Stone Age 

c)

Nomadic ways of life

d)

Farming villages

3.
Record Keeping,  Advanced Technology, Complex Institutions, Advanced Cities, and Specialized Workers are all
a)
Characteristics of Hunting and Gathering Societies
b)
Characteristics of Civilizations
c)
Characteristics of Nomadic Tribes
4.

Specialization occurs when

a)

people work at a single job

b)

everyone farms together

c)

people hunt in groups

5.

What made the first villages possible?

a)

warm clothing

b)

government

c)

armies

d)

farming

6.
Which development was a direct result of the Neolithic Revolution?
a)
Machines were used to mass- produce goods for markets
b)

a surplus of food led to more complex societies

c)
Feudal manors provided the necessities of life.
d)
the centers of trade moved from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
7.
Where did the first civilizations rise?
a)
On rivers
b)
Near mountains
c)
In North America
d)
Near Seas
8.
What was a major effect of the neolithic revolution?
a)
People began hunting and gathering
b)
The first permanent settlements
c)
A terrible war
d)
Human rights
9.
The building of a canal to bring water to farms is an example of _____.  
a)
domestication 
b)
diasphora
c)
transferance
d)
irrigation 
10.
What were the effects of the Neolithic Revolution?
a)
Surplus Food Supply
b)
Specialization of Jobs
c)
Permanent Settlements
d)
All of the above
11.
What were pyramids?
a)
temples to the gods
b)
prisons
c)
tombs for pharaohs
d)
tombs for nobles
12.
What is Egyptian writing called?
a)
cuneiform
b)
hieroglyphic
c)
characters
d)
Sanskrit
13.

Hammurabi's Code served as the ________ for Babylonian society.

a)

history

b)

laws

c)

beliefs

d)

fines

14.

a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia

a)

Pyramid

b)

Ziggurat

c)

Temple

d)

House

15.

Hammurabi's Code was a set of 282 rules, why was this significant?

a)

it caused people to rebel and claim there were too many rules to follow

b)

they created a system of laws to govern the entire empire and keep order

c)

most of the laws were not that important and few were actually applied

16.
Which two cities were discovered in the Indus River Valley?
a)
Tigris and Euphrates
b)
Sumer and Babylonia
c)
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
d)
Cairo and Bahgdad
17.
What were two things that these ancient people developed in the Indus River Valley?
a)
sewer system, grid - like streets
b)
written language, temples
c)
roads, irrigation