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Semester I Final Review Of Early Civilizations. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

When culture spreads from one place to another is called...
a) Cultural Hearth
b) Domestication
c) Culture
d) Cultural Diffusion

What were the large architectural features built like step pyramids with a temple on top for the city-state's god.
a) Great Pyramid
b) Ziggurat
c) Great Wall
d) Sphinx

What did the Nile and Indus River Valley depend on to grow crops in fertile soil?
a) Famines
b) Floods
c) Monsoons
d) Errosion

When a group of people share a way of life with similar beliefs and customs is called....
a) Cultural Hearth
b) Domestication
c) Culture
d) Cultural Diffusion

What was the form of writing developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia?
a) Greek
b) Heiroglypics
c) Caligraphy
d) Cuneiform

Which of the following is an example of modifying the environment?
a) city planners constructing highways and buildings
b) ancient Egyptian farmers waiting for the Nile to flood
c) residents of Chicago wearing heavy coats in the winter
d) a student describing the absolute location of Chicago

What was the code of laws that provided structure and order in ancient Babylon?
a) Babylonian Code
b) Confucianism
c) Hammurabi's Code
d) Ten Commandments

Which of the following could define a physical region?
a) a language
b) a religion
c) a mountain range
d) political borders

What resources led to the development of the early civilizations?
a) Mountains and Rivers
b) Rivers and Fertile Farmland
c) Fertile Farmland and Deserts
d) Mountains and Deserts

Which of these is a characteristic of a nomadic people?
a) They fish in the ocean and create trading empires to sell their catch.
b) They are expert architects and build intricately planned cities.
c) They gather enormous armies and place a high value on military training.
d) They travel from location to location rather than settling in one place.

People depend on the environment for ________.
a) food, language and region
b) clothing, culture and politics
c) gold, politics and shelter
d) food, clothing and shelter

What are the two reasons why people settled along rivers?
a) survival and trade
b) hunting and gathering
c) reading and writing
d) math and arithmetic

Egypt was located about what river?
a) Nile
b) Tigris
c) Euphrates
d) Indus

What role did Ancient Egyptians have in the development of theocracy?
a) They were the first to consider their ruler to be a god.
b) They wanted other governments to have the same type of rulers.
c) They were the first to require their ruler to lead the military in battle.
d) They thought their ruler should be the oldest person in the land.

Government led by religious leaders
a) communism
b) republic
c) democracy
d) theocracy

What civilization developed a way to preserve the bodies of their dead into mummies
a) Nile River Valley
b) Mesopotamia
c) Indus River Valley
d) Tigris Euphrates River Valley

Why is the area around the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile called the Fertile Crescent?
a) because proximity to the rivers made the land perfect for farming.
b) because the desert protected it from invaders, allowing the population to grow.
c) because several seasons of good rain helped bring many years of successful harvests.
d) because the Sumerians planted flowers along the river banks, which grew to cover the region.

Which of the following is a human characteristic of a place?
a) language
b) landforms
c) climate
d) vegetation

Which theme of geography studies how and why places are similar to other places?
a) place
b) region
c) human environment interaction
d) location

How was the Great Rift Valley formed?
a) Meteor struck Earth, causing a large crater to form.
b) People used shovels to dig out the valley. hy
c) Tectonic plates separated, causing the rift to form.
d) Glaciers cut deep into the Earth’s crust.

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