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Ancient History Quiz

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an empire?

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2.

Which Phoenician inventions have influenced our lives nowadays?

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3.

Who were the Hittites? When did they rule?

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4.

What did the Hittites' economy depend on?

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5.

Who were the Assyrians? When and where did they rise?

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6.

What did the Assyrian's economy depend on?

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7.

When did the Chaldean Empire start? Which areas did they rule over?

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8.

Can you name two achievements of the Chaldeans?

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9.

What were the hanging gardens of Babylon?

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10.

What did the Babylonian's economy depend on?

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11.

Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks: An (a)   is a group of territories and people ruled by a single authority, usually the emperor.

12.

The (a)   Empire was the last pre-Islamic empire.

13.

Towers that have the form of terraced pyramids are called (a)   .

14.

_______________________________ was a Greek King who came from Macedonia to expand his empire.

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15.

The (a)   were the first people to use the chariots.

16.

The (a)   were the first people who used the Egyptian hieroglyphs to create the alphabet.

17.

During the (a)   Empire, the hanging gardens of Babylon were built.

18.

Circle the best choice to complete each sentence: The Phoenicians controlled a long strip of land that extended along the ________________________________ by the year 1,200 BC.

a)

Baltic Sea

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Nile River

19.

The Assyrians created their own _______________________________which depended on a strong army.

a)

defense system

b)

confused rulers

c)

great instability

20.

The Seleucid Empire comprised _______________________________.

a)

Pakistan

b)

Mesopotamia

c)

all of the above and Anatolia

21.

Cyrus the Great was the leader of the Persian Empire, and he ruled for _______________________________.

a)

31 years

b)

33 years

c)

35 years