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Unit One Study Guide
AWH Mr. Owens Room 306
Use this as a COVER SHEET!
Write your answers on loose leaf!
1. What were “four” achievements of the Sumerians?
2. What were “four” achievements of the Phoenicians?
3. What were the beliefs of Zoroaster based on? Where did it develop?
4. Who was Sargon? Who was Hammurabi? Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
5. What country did the Hyksos invade and control? How did they do it?
6. Why did the Mesopotamians develop government?
7. Who was the first pharaoh? What did he unite?
8. What was pharaoh considered in Ancient Egypt? Why?
9. What was Exodus? Who led it?
10. Put in order the “four parts” of Egyptian pyramid development from
Engineering an Empire.
11. What was the Royal Road? What was the Darius Canal?
12. What is a “Diaspora”?
13. Who were the “three’ most famous kings of Israel, describe them?
14. What is a dynasty?
15. What are “”four” geographic parts of the Fertile Crescent?
16. What is the Torah?
What is the Talmud?
17. What is a scribe?
18. What did Thutmose III do for the New Kingdom of Egypt?
19. Why did Israel split into two parts? What were they called?
20. Why was the Fertile Crescent often invaded?
21. What Mesopotamian culture created the first empire? What culture
created the largest empire?
22. What buildings can be found at Giza in ancient Egypt?
23. What was writing first used for?
24. What are hieroglyphics? What is cuneiform?
25. Name the Mesopotamian civilization’s in order?
26. What did Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten try to do in Ancient Egypt?
27. Who created the Chaldean Empire? What did he build?
28. Who was Osiris? Who was Anubis? Who was Isis! Who was
Amen/Amon Re?
29. What is the nickname of the Assyrian civilization?
30. What math did the Egyptians use to build the pyramids?
31. Who was Djoser, who was Imhotep, who was Snefru?
32. Why was Cyrus the Great called “GREAT”?
33. What did Egypt build to protect its trade routes on the Nile?
34. What is Mosaic Law?
35. What was the Hammurabi Code? What is it based on?
36. What did the Hittites discover? What did it replace?
37. What were three examples of Persian engineering from Engineering
and Empire?
38. Who was Hatshepsut? Who was her son?
39. What was the result of Persia combining many cultures?
40. What happened to Egypt after Ramses II? Why?
II. Vocabulary: (NO one word answers!)
NUMBER YOUR ANSWERS!
1. kosher
2. Ten Thousand Immortals
3. city-state
4. Indo-Europeans
5. Diaspora
6. Nebuchadnezzar
7. Mesopotamia
8. Phoenicians
9. Fertile Crescent
10. Exodus
11. Hittites
Assyrians
12. satraps
13. ziggurat
14. Babylon
15. Sargon
16. Cyrus the Great
Darius the Great
17. Phoenician alphabet
18. pharaoh
19. empire
20. Hyksos
21. Step Pyramid
Bent Pyramid
22. scribes
23. Anubis
Set
Osiris
24. Giza
25. Sahara Desert
26. Nile River
27. Nubia
Kush
28. Memphis
Thebes
29. Piankhi
30. theocracy
bureaucracy
31. cataracts
32. Ramses II
Thutmose III
33. Rosetta Stone
34. delta
35. papyrus
Xerxes
Red Pyramid
Isis
Amen/Amon-Re