WorksheetsWorld History Semester Exam Review - 8A
Total questions: 91
Worksheet time: 46mins
What is history?
The study of future events
The record of the past; a story of what happened to people in the past
The study of animals only
A collection of myths and legends
A person who is an expert of history is called a:
Archaeologist
Anthropologist
Historian
Geologist
Which type of source provides first-hand knowledge of an event?
Secondary source
Primary source
Tertiary source
Digital source
A secondary source is:
Created by someone who was present at the event
Always more reliable than primary sources
Created at a later date by someone who wasn't there at the event
Only found in museums
An archaeologist is a person who:
Studies the weather
Finds and studies the things humans left behind in the past
Writes history books
Studies modern cultures only
What does an anthropologist study?
Plants and animals
The beginnings and behaviors of people
Weather patterns
Rock formations
Carbon dating is used to:
Find buried treasure
Determine how old an object is
Predict the weather
Study plant growth
Prehistory means:
The study of dinosaurs
Modern history
"Before history," the time before humans wrote records of the past
The history of prehistoric animals
Obsidian is:
A type of metal
A writing tool
A type of volcanic stone
An ancient city
A nomad is:
A person who lives in one place permanently
A person who moves from place to place to hunt and gather food
A type of ancient ruler
A religious leader
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a type of artifact?
Tools
Weapons
Pottery
Jewelry
Calendars are used to:
Predict the future
Keep track of time and dates
Store food
Make weapons
Why don't we know a lot about people who lived long ago?
They didn't leave any artifacts
There wasn't a written language back then
They lived underground
They destroyed all evidence
What is planting seeds to grow food called?
Hunting
Gathering
Farming/Agriculture
Nomadism
Nomads pack up their homes and move when they:
Get bored
Cannot find food where they live
Want to explore
Are attacked by enemies
What is the main purpose of pottery?
Decoration only
To store food and water and protect them from insects
To make music
To build houses
Bronze is made by melting together:
Iron and steel
Copper and tin
Gold and silver
Lead and zinc
The Bronze Age was important because:
It made better jewelry
It created stronger weapons and tools
It was prettier than other metals
It was easier to find
Before farming, most people were:
City dwellers
Nomads who hunted and gathered
Merchants
Priests
Archaeological evidence helps us understand the past because:
It provides written records
It shows us physical objects people used
It predicts the future
It tells us about modern times
The development of agriculture was important because it:
Made people move more often
Allowed people to settle in one place
Made hunting easier
Reduced the population
Stone tools were eventually replaced by metal tools because metal tools were:
Prettier
Easier to make
Stronger and more durable
Lighter
Early humans used fire for all of the following EXCEPT:
Cooking food
Staying warm
Scaring away animals
Writing messages
The study of artifacts helps historians:
Predict future events
Understand how people lived in the past
Find buried treasure
Control the weather
Which came first in human development?
Writing
Agriculture
Use of stone tools
Building cities
City-states are:
Large empires
Cities surrounded by smaller villages
Desert settlements
Mountain communities
A ziggurat is:
A type of weapon
A building like a pyramid with a base and 4 sides, top smaller than bottom
A form of writing
A trading agreement
To sacrifice means to:
Trade goods
Offer a gift to a god by killing or burning something
Build a temple
Write laws
Cuneiform is:
A type of building
The Sumerian form of writing
A religious ceremony
A farming technique
A stylus is:
A type of building material
A sharp writing tool
A form of government
A religious leader
An empire is:
A small village
A large area that is controlled by one leader
A type of writing
A religious building
An emperor is:
A priest
A person who rules an empire
A farmer
A trader
To translate means to:
Move from one place to another
Change the words of one language into those of another
Build a new city
Start a war
Looting means to:
Build something
Rob or steal treasure that those who have won a war take away
Make peace
Plant crops
An alliance is:
A type of building
An agreement to work together to help one another
A form of punishment
A religious ceremony
Sumer was located
In Egypt
Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
In China
In Greece
What is considered the most important invention by the Sumerians?
The wheel
Writing
Bronze tools
Agriculture
Who took over Sumer and turned it into an empire?
Babylonians
Akkadians
Assyrians
Persians
The Akkadian army was stronger than other armies because they used weapons made of:
Iron
Stone
Bronze
Wood
To improve life in Babylon, Hammurabi built all of the following EXCEPT:
A giant ziggurat
A wall around the city
Improved roads
A large library
The Golden Age of Babylon was also known as:
The Age of Bronze
Hammurabi's Reign
The Time of Peace
The Era of Writing
The Assyrians had stronger weapons because they used:
Bronze
Stone
Iron
Copper
The Assyrian Army included all of the following types of warriors EXCEPT:
Charioteers
Archers
Infantry
Navy sailors
The largest city in Assyria was called:
Babylon
Nineveh
Sumer
Akkad
Nebuchadnezzar was well known for building:
The first ziggurat and bronze weapons
A giant wall and the Hanging Gardens
The first library and school
Roads and bridges
Inside the giant ziggurat, priests would:
Store grain
Study and draw constellations
Train soldiers
Make weapons
The Chaldean priests came up with:
The first calendar
Zodiac signs
The first laws
Bronze making
Along with the Zodiac signs, the priests also came up with:
12 months in a year
7 days in a week
24 hours in a day
60 minutes in an hour
Who defeated the Chaldeans?
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
The Nile River was important to Egyptian civilization because it:
Was the shortest river in Africa
Brought water to their crops and gave ability to travel quickly
Flowed east to west
Was used only for transportation
The Nile River is:
The second longest river in the world
The longest river in the world
Located entirely in Egypt
A man-made waterway
Egyptians believed in many gods. This is called:
Monotheism
Polytheism
Atheism
Agnosticism
Egyptian history is divided into how many main time periods?
Two
Three
Four
Five
Who united the people and created the first dynasty around 3100 B.C.?
King Khufu
King Menes
King Tut
King Ramses
A dynasty is:
A type of building
A family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family
A form of writing
A religious ceremony
A Pharaoh was:
A priest
An Egyptian king
A farmer
A trader
Bureaucracy means:
A type of government with a king
An administrative organization that relies on non-elected officials and procedures
A religious system
A form of writing
Mummification is:
A form of punishment
The process of slowly drying a body to prevent it from rotting away
A type of building technique
A religious ceremony only
The Great Pyramid was built for:
King Menes
King Khufu
King Tut
King Ramses
The Great Pyramid is "guarded" by:
The Sphinx
Stone lions
Tall walls
A moat
The Middle Kingdom was known as the:
Age of Pyramids
"Golden Age of Stability"
Time of War
Period of Decline
Egyptian society was structured like:
A circle
A pyramid
A square
A triangle
The Egyptian writing system was called:
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Alphabet
Pictographs
Hieroglyphics means:
"King's writing"
"Priest carvings" or "sacred writings"
"Common language"
"Simple symbols"
Hieratic script was used for:
Religious ceremonies only
Daily life
Royal decrees only
Tomb inscriptions only
Egyptians created an accurate calendar with how many days?
360 days
365 days
370 days
400 days
The Egyptian calendar was based on:
The flooding of the Nile only
Movements of the moon and stars
Religious festivals only
Agricultural seasons only
Pastoral nomads are people who?
Farm in one location
Domesticate animals to use as a food source and move along migratory routes
Live in cities
Fish in the ocean
The Phoenicians lived:
In the mountains
On the eastern coast of Mediterranean Sea
In the desert
On islands only
The Phoenicians were known for all of the following EXCEPT:
Producing purple dye, glass, and lumber
Building ships and establishing sea trade routes
Inventing a form of the alphabet
Building the first pyramids
The Israelites lived:
North of the Phoenicians
Just to the south of the Phoenicians
In Egypt
In Mesopotamia
The religion of the Israelites is:
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Polytheism
Who was King David's son?
King Solomon
King Saul
King Moses
King Abraham
King Solomon built the first:
Palace in Israel
Temple in Jerusalem
Wall around the city
Library
When Solomon died, his kingdom split into:
Three parts
Four parts
Two parts: Israel and Judah
Five parts
The 10 Commandments influenced:
Art and music
The legal code we still follow today
Agricultural practices
Trade agreements
The Minoans lived on:
The mainland of Greece
Crete, an island in the Mediterranean Sea
The coast of Asia Minor
The Italian peninsula
The Minoans were known for:
Their military conquests
Their pottery and jewelry made from gold and silver
Building pyramids
Inventing writing
The giant palace made for King Minos was called:
Mycenae
Knossos
Athens
Sparta
The Minoan civilization is believed to have been destroyed by:
War with other city-states
A giant tidal wave in 1450 BC
Disease
Volcanic eruption
China is located on which continent?
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
What percentage of China's land is suitable for farming?
5%
10%
19%
25%
Mount Everest is located in which mountain range?
Rocky Mountains
Alps
Himalayas
Andes
During the Shang Dynasty, China was ruled by:
Elected officials
Religious priests
Aristocrats (people who had a lot of land, power passed down through family)
Foreign invaders
Chinese farmers grew different crops in different regions. Which crops were grown where?
Rice in the North, Millet in the South
Millet in the North, Rice in the South
Only rice throughout China
Only millet throughout China
Which dynasty was the longest lasting in Chinese history?
Shang Dynasty
Qin Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
The Zhou Dynasty lasted for almost:
400 years
600 years
800 years
1000 years
What percentage of ancient Greek land was mountains?
About 60%
About 70%
About 80%
About 90%
The first Greek city-state was:
Athens
Sparta
Olympia
Mycenae
Homer wrote two famous epic poems called:
The Iliad and The Aeneid
The Odyssey and The Metamorphoses
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The Aeneid and The Odyssey
The three distinct periods of Ancient Greece were
The Early, Middle, and Late Periods
The Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Periods
The Bronze, Iron, and Golden Ages
The Mycenaean, Athenian, and Spartan Periods
