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When you are reading a map, what two things should you do first?
a) Look at title and the colors
b) Look at the title and legend.
c) Look at the map and compass rose.
d)

A dynasty is
a) A group of leaders
b) A tyrant
c) A series of leaders from one family
d)

Latitude is measured using what cardinal directions?
a) North and South
b) West and East
c) North and West
d) East and North

Longitude is measured using what cardinal directions?
a) North and West
b) North and South
c) West and East
d) East and North

Democracy is
a) being ruled by one person
b) Being ruled by a few rich landowners
c) Being ruled by the people
d) Having no laws or power

Oligarchy is
a) Having no laws or power
b) being ruled by one person
c) Being ruled by the people
d) Being ruled by a few rich landowners

Tyranny is
a) Being ruled by a few rich landowners
b) Being ruled by the people
c) Having no laws or power
d) being ruled by one person that took power by force

Irrigation systems developed in Mesopotamia did what?
a) Led to civilizations developing because not everyone was good at farming
b) gave people language
c) Gave people farming jobs
d) Led to civilizations developing because not everyone had work in the fields

Architecture is:
a) making/designing buildings
b) Creating art pieces
c) A system of writing
d)

Cuneiform is
a) the first math system
b) system of writing
c) form of government
d) medical practices

Which word does not belong?
a) Consuls
b) Pharoah
c) Emporer
d) citizens

Which word does not fit?
a) Egypt
b) Rome
c) Athens
d)

Emperors were leaders of what type of government?
a) Democracy
b) Monarchy
c) Tyranny
d) Direct Democracy

What do you need to look for in order to settle somewhere?
a) Water, food, shelter
b) Water, food, heat
c) Heat, clothes and water
d) Oxygen, food and clothes

Because of the mountainous terrain, Greek areas
a) developed their own government and laws
b) developed one united country of Greece
c) developed one united country of Athens
d) developed one united government of Sparta

Dynasty's end becuase
a) the ruler died
b) The rulers have not mad the people happy
c) the gods are mad at the rulers
d) The rulers are mad at the gods

People believed that the gods
a) controlled the crops and their well being
b) didn't have power
c) were nice to only the elite
d)

A legend
a) explains the symbols on the map
b) gives you the distance between two places
c) Tells you what the map is showing
d) Tells you the cardinal directions

A scale
a) Tells you the cardinal directions
b) Tells you what the map is showing
c) explains the symbols on the map
d) helps to determine the distance between two places

Which of the following was NOT a Roman achievement?
a) Aqueducts
b) 365 day calendar
c) Zigguarts
d)

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