WorksheetsEight Features of a Civilization Assessment
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1.What is a group of people living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society?
a)
society
b)
civilization
c)
country
2.
2. Where were cities first developed around?
a)
highways
b)
rivers/water source
c)
farms
3.
3. Why were ancient cities developed at the location they were?
a)
swimming
b)
shopping
c)
transportation
4.
4. What feature creates and keeps order in society through rules, and protection through the military?
a)
Public Works
b)
Government and Laws
c)
Cities
5.
5. How was writing used in the past as a feature of a civilization?
a)
pictures representing words
b)
email
c)
newspapers
6.
6. What came along because early farmers were able to settle in a permanent location?
a)
cities
b)
religions
c)
governments
7.
7. What feature was developed as farmers grew larger amounts of crops, less people were needed as farmers?
a)
social classes
b)
public works
c)
job specialization
8.
8. What feature was developed as people began to work at different jobs and to find different levels of respect or different status to different jobs?
a)
social classes
b)
writing systems
c)
job specialization
9.
9. What type of religious beliefs were more common in ancient times?
a)
monotheistic
b)
antitheistic
c)
polytheistic
10.
10. One of the eight features that help make a civilization organized is a complex ___________.
a)
government
b)
religion
c)
city
11.
11. All civilizations have an organized central ________________.
a)
class
b)
religion
c)
government
12.
12. What feature of a civilization are large projects, such as roads, organized by the government to benefit the community or city?
a)
social classes
b)
public works
c)
art and achitecture
13.
13. Why type of religion is more common today?
a)
nanotheistic
b)
monotheistic
c)
polytheistic
14.
14. What feature was used often to impress visitors?
a)
art and achitecture
b)
public works
c)
writing systems
15.
15. Why were organized central governments so important?
a)
to help with economy
b)
to make laws and protect the people
c)
to prevent flooding
16.
16. What did prehistoric people not have?
a)
places to roam
b)
families
c)
writing
17.
17. How did prehistoric people survive?
a)
hunting and gathering
b)
farming
c)
building homes
18.
18. Prehistoric people were ______________ moving from place to place.
a)
nomads
b)
cavemen
c)
farmers
19.
19. What is the discovery of farming called?
a)
farming revolution
b)
ability to grow plants
c)
agricultural revolution
20.
20. Where did these new farmers settle near?
a)
other people
b)
cities
c)
rivers
21.
21. What ancient civilization developed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
Egypt
c)
India
d)
China
22.
22. What ancient civilization developed around the Nile River?
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
Egypt
c)
India
d)
China
23.
23. Why was living near rivers so important?
a)
transportation, protections, swimming
b)
protection, good habitat, harvesting crops
c)
flooding, farming, swimming
24.
24. What is a factor that attracts people to another area?
a)
push factor
b)
pull factor
c)
migration
25.
25. What is the process of relocating to a new region?
a)
migration
b)
immigration
c)
push/pull factors
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