T1D Early civilisations review

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Early civilisations review

What does Mesopotamia mean again?

1. Shining city on the hill
2. The golden coast
3. The land between rivers
4. Home of the gods

What is irrigation?

1. Setting up laws & taxes
2. A watering system for farmlands
3. Specialising in other jobs
4. Conquering neighbouring cities

How did villages grow into cities?

1. Farmers, craftsmen, and priests all started to live together
2. Powerful kings built palaces in villages
3. They became cities when they built a temple
4. People started building walls around several villages, turning it into a city.

Cities in Mesopotamia were centered around what?

1. Around the marketplace
2. Around the palace
3. Around the Ziggurat
4. Around the football stadium

Why was the invention of writing so important?

1. Because people could keep records of their food production
2. Because people could now write love letters to each other
3. Because this meant the beginning of history
4. Because now children could make homework

What is -not- an element of civilisation?

1. Having the same writing/language
2. Having a similar culture
3. Having the same laws
4. Having the same leader

What is the Mesopotamian script called again?

1. Pluriform
2. Cuneiform
3. Demotic
4. Thisisn'tevenmyfinalform

What did they write on?

1. Scrolls of papyrus
2. Stone tablets
3. Clay tablets
4. Walls of buildings

How did writing change society?

1. People could keep track of who still owed them money
2. People needed to be educated to work as scribes
3. People stopped making statues and just wrote everything down
4. Kings started writing mean letters instead of waging war

What was -not- a task of the pharaoh?

1. Being a god on Earth
2. Leading the army
3. Making sure the Nile overflows
4. Directing the yearly harvest

Which people could become scribes?

1. Poor farmers as there were farmers enough
2. Priests because writing was a holy thing
3. Sons of rich people because school was expensive
4. Members of the royal family

What did the Egyptians do that we don't do anymore now when burying our dead?

1. Put the body in a coffin
2. Enbalm the body
3. Take out the brains
4. Pray for the dead person

Which statement about the pyramids is not true?

1. They took more than twenty years to build
2. They were built by slaves
3. They used maths and astronomy in the designs
4. There were a lot of different sizes

Which statement is true?

1. There were still mammoths living on Earth when the pyramids were being built
2. Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the pyramids than to the moon landing
3. The pyramids were rediscovered by Napoleon
4. Tutankhamun is buried in a pyramid

Why is Tutankhamun so famous?

1. Because he united upper- and lower Egypt
2. Because he defeated the Hittite kingdom
3. Because his tomb was found completely intact
4. Because he was the pharaoh from the bible book Exodus