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- 1. Multiple Choice
What does the term “civilization” mean?
Larger groups of people living together in one place in more complex societies with social hierarchies and specialization of labor.
The process by which people change plants and animals over time at a genetic level to increase their productivity or other desired traits.
A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category because of their power, talent, wealth, or other characteristic.
A way of life where a group of people survives from the secondary products of herds. People follow patterns of grazing to keep their herds alive.
- 2. Multiple Choice
How did geography play a key role in the early development of civilizations?
Societies developed near oceans.
Societies developed in river valleys.
Societies developed in the desert.
Societies developed in the tundra.
- 3. Multiple Choice
River valleys offer societies access to water and fertile soil for highly productive agriculture as well as large mammal and plants suitable for domestication.
True
False
- 4. Multiple Choice
Because of intense farming, civilizations required more people to live in an area, which of the following developed:
Culture
Law
Written Language
All of these
- 5. Multiple Choice
Civilizations in Afro-Eurasia developed around rivers. Which of the following is NOT one of those rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia
The Nile in Egypt
The Indus River in modern India/Pakistan
The Amazon in Brazil
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is social hierarchy?
A rule of conduct or action that is binding and enforced by a controlling authority.
A type of civilization that developed near or around a major river and considered the earliest known large human civilizations.
An order of social classes with producers at the bottom and leaders or kings at the top.
A group of people considered to be the best in a particular society or category because of their power, talent, wealth, or other characteristic.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What does polytheistic mean?
Worshipping or believing in more than one god.
A person who was able to read and write, allowing for the creation of written records and messages.
Large groups of domesticated animals like sheep or goats.
A series of rulers in a particular place considered members of the same family.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Writing systems and laws developed over time in the exact same way for each society.
True
False
- 9. Multiple Choice
Both writing and legal systems helped to firmly establish social hierarchies and divide power up in different ways.
True
False
- 10. Multiple Choice
How did nomadic people survive once civilizations started to emerge?
They didn’t survive and died out.
They raised and herded animals, which provided food, transportation, and trade.
They created small farms along trade routes.
They eventually gave up being nomads and moved into the news towns and cities.
- 11. Multiple Choice
How did the nomadic peoples affect the growing civilizations?
They had no effect on the growing civilization.
Spreading of diseases.
They spread technology, goods, and ideas between civilizations.
Created trading posts so people form the civilizations could travel long distances.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Climate features and natural resources where the early civilizations developed allowed for the intensification of agriculture which allowed for what?
Larger groups to live in a single area.
Over use of the natural resources forcing people to leave cities.
Pastoral Nomads to stop trading and farm.
Living conditions to get worse.
- 13. Multiple Choice
People developed better technology because they needed to solve new problems such as how to farm more efficiently, or how to better fight to defend a city.
True
False
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is cultural diffusion?
The process of different cultures adopted ideas and technology from other cultures over time.
A way of life where a group of people survives from the secondary products of herds. People follow patterns of grazing to keep their herds alive.
Livestock, migrate in an established territory to find pasture for their animals.
Worshipping or believing in more than one god.
- 15. Multiple Choice
What is another word for trade?
commerce
civics
culture
isolation
communication
- 16. Multiple Choice
Q. What does absolute monarch mean?
A single ruler who rules with the opinion of all his subjects
a king/queen who believes their power comes from God
a king/queen who holds all the power in their country
a senate that is elected by the citizens
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is another term for farming?
irrigation
agriculture
commerce
economics
- 18. Multiple Choice
What is the term that means controlling water for farming? (for example, farmers dug canals to bring water to crops)
isolation
agriculture
irrigation
aqueduct
- 19. Multiple Choice
New innovations or technologies transformed societies. What does transform mean?
to change
to delay
to decrease
to keep things the same
- 20. Multiple Choice
Many ancient civilizations believed that natural events like floods, earthquakes, and bad harvests were connected to the actions of their gods. They were polytheistic and worshipped gods related to nature, like the sun god or the god of the river.
true
false
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