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CHAPTER 1 TEST REVIEW
“THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS”
1. What are things made by
humans?
ARTIFACTS
11. What was Mesopotamia’s
climate like?
HOT & DRY
2. What was the name for
skilled workers who made
things like pottery, etc?
ARTISANS
12. What do we call the times
of extreme cold with great ice
sheets?
ICE AGE
3. What is the metal that is a
mixture of copper and tin?
BRONZE
13. What is the building of
dams, channels and ditches to
bring water to crops called?
IRRIGATION
4. What is a group of traveling
merchants called?
CARAVAN
5. What is Sumerian writing
called?
CUNEIFORM
6. What is a group of many
different lands under one ruler
called?
EMPIRE
7. What is a long poem that
tells the story of a hero?
EPIC
8. Who is most remembered
for the legal code he wrote?
HAMMURABI
9. What do we call people
who study and write about the
human past?
HISTORIANS
10. What group of people
found a way to make iron
strong enough for weapons and
the Assyrians copied their
idea?
HITTITES
14. What is one of the oldest
known cities in what is today
Israel?
JERICHO
15. Where is the “cradle of
civilization”?
MESOPOTAMIA
16. What social class included
merchants, farmers, and
artisans?
MIDDLE
17. What building material did
Sumerians use for their
buildings?
MUD BRICKS
18. Who was the Chaldean
king who built the Hanging
Gardens for his wife?
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
19. What city was the center
of the Chaldean empire?
BABYLON
20. What is another name for
“Old Stone Age”?
PALEOLITHIC
21. Why do some historians
consider the farming
revolution to be the most
important event in human
history?
- A STEADY FOOD
SUPPLY
- POPULATION
INCREASED
SPECIALIZATION OF
SKILLS
VILLAGES LED TO
CIVILIZATIONS
22. Describe some of the
military accomplishments of
the Assyrians.
- BATTERING RAMS
- IRON WEAPONS
- TUNNELED UNDER
WALLS
- LADDERS TO GO OVER
WALLS
- ORGANIZED ARMY
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