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How did the Egyptians prepare their rulers for the afterlife?
a) cremated them
b) preserved their bodies by mummification
c) built pyramids with all of their necessary goods
d) both b and c
Egypt is situated around the Tigris river
a) True
b) False
c)
d)
What are some aspects of Mesopotamian society that are revealed in Hammurabi's code?
a) patriarchal society
b) a very strict society
c) a lenient society
d) both a and b
Cuneiform was the writing of the ancient Indus River civilizations
a) True
b) False
c)
d)
what new metal were the Sumerians able to create from copper and tin?
a) gold
b) silver
c) Iron
d) bronze
What type of gov't did the Sumerians set up?
a) monarchy
b) democracy
c) theocracy
d) ziggurat
Belief in many different Gods
a) monotheistic
b) polytheistic
c) phonytheistic
d) monopolyeistic
Who were the creators of the first Mesopotamian society?
a) Sumerians
b) Urians
c) Urkans
d) Akkadians
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers enclosed the civilizations known as what?
a) Egypt
b) Persia
c) Mesopotamia
d) Israel
King Menes united upper and lower Egypt
a) True
b) False
c)
d)
When ruling power is passed from one generation to the next, this is known as:
a) monarchy
b) dictatorship
c) socialism
d) dynasty
what is the name given to ancient Egyptian writing?
a) hierogplyphics
b) hieroclifts
c) cuneiform
d) Sumerian alphabet
What are the six things required to be classified as a civilization?
a) water, food, shelter, religion, writing, military
b) social structure, nomadic, hunter-gatherer, religion, government, military
c) social structure, art, writing, cities, religion, government,
d) none of these answers
The Phoenicians invented the 22 letter alphabet that influenced our alphabet today
a) True
b) False
c)
d)
According to Hinduism, you must follow the divine law and do your duty for fruitful reincarnation. This divine law is known as what?
a) Karma
b) Dharma
c) Ka
d) Bodhi
The two most important rivers of the ancient Chinese civilizations?
a) Huang He and Yangtze
b) Indus and Huang He
c) Nile and Ganges
d) Huang He and Ganges
In the practice of Buddhism, you have reached ultimate reality when you have reached what?
a) Bodhi
b) Karma
c) Reincarnation
d) Nirvana
What can be said of the ancient Indian civilizations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
a) they were crudely planned out and very unorganized
b) very small and dirty with no sewage system or garbage disposal
c) well planned with wide perpendicular streets and waste disposal
d) these were not two early civilizations in India
what are the social classes of India a representation of?
a) four story building
b) the body
c) the gov't
d) the brain
What is it called when one dynasty is replaced by another over periods of time?
a) mandate of heaven
b) dynastic cycle
c) cycle of Kings
d) Emperor's wheel
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