1. History of Civilizaiton
QUIZ

2. 1.What are the Names of the First four River valley Civilizations?
Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, China
Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Harappa, Huang He.
Indus valley, Yellow River, Sumeria, Ancient Egypt.
Harappa, Yellow River, Ancient Egypt, Huang He

3. Who were the Pioneers of Mesopotamian culture?
Chaldeans
Kassites
Assyrians
Sumerians

4. What does Pharaoh mean? House of love Royal leader House of god
God’s love

5. What was the reason for the start of the Ancient Egypt’s 1st Intermediate period?
Civil war
Floods
Foreign Invasion
Bankruptcy

6. Who NEVER invaded Ancient Egypt?
Hyksos
Assyrians
Nubians
Sumerians

7. What was NOT responsible for the downfall of the Indus Valley Civilization?
Drought
Deforestation
Aryan Invasion
Drying of the Sarasvati River.

8. What is the name of the first dynasty of Ancient China?
Shang
Zhou (Chou)
Qin
Hsia (Xia)

9. Who was the first emperor of China?
Sun Tzu
Mao Tse Tung
Shih Huang Ti
Huang Ti Shih

10. What is unique about the ancient Indus Valley cities?
Their uniform layout
Their long narrow streets
Their access to fresh water
Their mud brick walls

11. Who is this?
Cleopatra
Ramses
Tutankhamen
Hatshepsut

12. Who is this?
Sargon I
Sargon II
Shih Huang Ti
Hammurabi

13. What is and where is this?
Ziggurat, UR, Modern day Iraq

14. What are the names of the TWO rivers of Mesopotamia?
Danube, Euphrates
Tigris, Danube
Tigris, Nile
Tigris, Euphrates

15. Which word best describes the Kassites?
Cultured
Uncultured
Sophisticated
Artistic

16. The Assyrians were… Peaceful and loving Good statesmen Brutal despots
Disorganized

17. “Hebrew” means…
From far away
From Israel
From across
From the Desert

18. King Solomon’s Temple was destroyed (first) by…
The Babylonians
The Persians
The Egyptians
The Palestinians

19. The Mandate of Heaven… was an Ancient Chinese religious practice
was an Ancient Chinese system of government
was an Ancient Chinese theory of legitimacy
was an Ancient Chinese system of ancestor worship

20. The Persian Empire… Had a peaceful and insular system
Had a weak system of communication
Had strong, violent leaders
Had a superior system of government

21. Who finally crushed the Persian Empire?
Darius
Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
Napoleon

22. Who founded the Persian Empire?
Alexander the Great
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Xerxes

23. What was not a feature of Sumerian Law?
Trial by Jury
Eye for an Eye
Inequality before the law
Accidental death = Murder

24. What does “diaspora” mean?
Dispersal
Kicking out
Running away
Planting trees

25. Judaism was the first… polytheistic religion
true monotheistic religion
religion of the Fertile Crescent
religion to spread to foreign lands

26. The LAST Mesopotamian culture were…
The Kassites
The Chaldeans
The Sumerians
The Assyrians