Unit 1: Origins of Civilizations and Near East

Quiz Created By: Miss Chong

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1. What does “BC” mean?
   
   
   
   A) Before Christ
   B) Before Common Era
   C) Before Cesaer
   D) Bias Content
   




2. When did the Great Leap Forward occur?
   
   
   
   A) 100 000 years ago
   B) 35 000 years ago
   C) 10 000 years ago
   D) 3500 years ago
   




3. The Urban Reviolution:
   
   
   
   A) Followed the Neanderthals
   B) Followed Mesopotamia
   C) Followed the Palaeolithic Age
   D) Followed the Neolithic Age
   




4. Mesopotamia is located between what two rivers?
   
   
   
   A) Nile and Tigris
   B) Euphrates and Neander
   C) Ur and Yangtze
   D) Tigris and Euphrates
   




5. Mesopotamia is known for what kind of land and climate?
   
   
   
   A) annual flooding from Nile Delta
   B) natural levees
   C) annual flooding from Nile River
   D) fertile land of Faiyum
   




6. ?This civilization created first form of cuneiform:
   
   
   
   A) Babylon
   B) Assyrians
   C) Sumerians
   D) Hateshput
   




7. Who created the world’s first written law code?
   
   
   
   A) Hammurabi
   B) Hateshput
   C) Hykos
   D) Menes
   




8. Who attempted to reform Egypt’s religion?
   
   
   
   A) Tuthmosis III
   B) Akhenaton
   C) Rames II
   D) Tutankhamun
   




9. How long did Egyptian civilization last?
   
   
   
   A) 1000 years
   B) 2500 years
   C) 3500 years
   D) 5000 years
   




10. The first pyramid build was the Step Pyramid under direction of?
    
    
    
    A) Rames II
    B) King Tut
    C) Imhotep
    D) Cleopatra
    

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