| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a characteristic of early civilizations? | specialization nomadic lifestyle egalitarian society subsistence economy |
| What does the construction of the tower at Jericho suggest about that Neolithic settlement? | It likely had some type of government. It likely revered ancestors. It likely performed animal sacrifices. It likely had a small population. |
| The population of what Neolithic town in today’s Turkey may have shared a belief in a mother-deity? | Çatalhöyük Jericho Caral Anyang |
| The earliest known script, cuneiform, was written by pressing a stylus made of reed into what type of material? | wet clay hot bronze dry papyrus gold plates |
| How large do scholars estimate the population of the city of Uruk may have been by the end of the fourth millennium BCE? | fifty thousand twenty thousand thirty thousand forty thousand |
| Who is credited with establishing the first-known empire in world history? | Sargon of Akkad Hammurabi Ur-Nammu Naram-Sin |
| What two adjectives best describe the gods of Mesopotamia? | fickle and easily angered pleasant and helpful distant and unconcerned weak and cautious |
| What adjective best describes the afterlife, according to the Sumerian belief system? | gloomy happy exciting scary |
| Who do scholars believe was the first pharaoh to unite all Egypt? | Narmer Amenemhat I Djoser Khufu |
| What was another role of the pharaoh, in addition to being the political head of the state? | high priest merchant scribe farmer |
| Imhotep built a large stone step pyramid for what pharaoh? | Djoser Khufu Menkaure Snefru |
| What role did the nomarchs play in the decline of the Old Kingdom and beginning of the First Intermediate Period? | They assumed more control over their regions. They instituted important religious practices. They allowed for greater Hyksos immigration. They rejected the authority of the priests. |
| What was significant about the reign of Sobekneferu? | She was the first woman to rule since before the Old Kingdom. She was both pharaoh and priest. She was the last pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom. She gave unprecedented power to the nomarchs. |
| The Mesopotamians called the Indus valley civilization by what name? | Meluhha Harappa Mohenjo-Daro Dholavira |
| What may have served as the monumental ceremonial center in Indus valley cities? | a citadel a ziggurat a pyramid a sunken court |
| What was the likely purpose of the large baths at Mohenjo-Daro? | ritual cleansing watering of livestock storage of drinking water the king’s use only |
| What was a common trade item exported from the Indus valley to Mesopotamia? | lapis lazuli diamonds rubies sapphires |
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