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Today you will be taking the Assessment Test. This is a test of how well you
understand the material we have covered over the school year.
Three different types of questions appear on this test: multiple choice, short
answer, and extended response.
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answer, be sure to erase the first mark completely. When you respond to
the short answer and extended response items, you do not have to use
the entire area of the space provided. Be sure that your answers are
complete and all your work appears in the Answer Document.
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1.
Using the map to the right, if you
were to travel from the
continent of Mesopotamia to
North America what ocean
would you cross?
4.
C. Mediterranean Sea
Which number on the map
above indicates the continent
on which the Tigris & Euphrates
Rivers are located?
D. Atlantic Ocean
A. four
A. Pacific Ocean
B.
Indian Ocean
B.
2.
Which of the following details
does not accurately describe
the Sumerian city-states?
C. three
D. two
5.
A. they were united under one
emperor
B.
the city-states refused to
trade with one another
along the rivers
B.
D. a military rule government
6.
Which of the following is a
religious temple in Sumer found
in the center of the city-state?
Which statement shows the way
in which Sumerian religion and
government were connected?
A. they created calendars to
record the growing season
B.
A. an aqueduct
a bas-relief
they believed sacrifices
made the gods happy
C. they recorded prayers and
offerings on clay tablets
C. a ziggurat
D. a lyre
D. they believe the gods chose
and directly communicated
with the kings
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rich soil between the rivers
C. many religious temples
D. scribes used cuneiform to
record events and trade
B.
What attracted people to settle
in the Fertile Crescent?
A. an arid climate
C. the city-states were
constantly at war
3.
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7.
Why were scribes important in
Sumer?
10. What was most significant about
Hammurabi’s Code?
A. they negotiated treaties
between emperors
B.
A. it was part of Babylon’s oral
tradition
they received laws from the
sun god
B.
C. they identified the best land
for planting crops
C. it was the first recorded set
of laws
D. they kept records for the
kings and priests
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D. it was copied from Ancient
Rome & Greece
What can you conclude about
the Assyrian Empire from the
following passage?
11. Which statement best describes
the religious system of the
ancient Mesopotamian
civilizations?
“The Assyrians invented the battering ram to
tear down walls, trained people to hurl
stones, created body armor and trained
warriors to fight on horse-drawn chariots.”
A. they worshiped only one
god named Marduk
A. the Assyrian government
had very skilled and well
trained armies
B.
B.
they worshiped animals
C. they were polytheistic
D. they did not believe in
sacrifices
they existed during a
Golden Age
C. their unskilled warriors led to
the fall of the empire
12. If you were researching
Mesopotamia and needed to
compare two maps of the
region what resource would you
use?
D. domesticated animals were
used for long distance trade
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it was developed during
prehistory
Many early civilizations
developed forms of writing.
Which of the following did the
Sumerians create?
A. bibliography
B.
atlas
A. Sanskrit
C. encyclopedia
B.
D. dictionary
Cuneiform
C. Hieroglyphics
D. Aramaic
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13. Long lasting advancements in
architecture, the arts, science,
math and writing were made by
the Babylonians. What can you
conclude about their empire?
16. In what order did the following
empires hold power?
1. Neo-Babylonian 2. Assyrian
A.
it existed during a Golden
Age of discovery
3. Akkadian
B.
it existed before the
Akkadian Empire
A. 1, 2, 3, 4
C. Babylonians were more
creative than the Greeks
C. 4, 1, 3, 2
4. Babylonian
B. 3, 4, 2, 1
D. 2, 1, 4, 3
D. the gods played a central
role in the lives of the
Babylonians
17. Scribes in Mesopotamia
recorded transactions between
merchants on clay tablets. If an
archaeologist found such a tablet
what type of source would it be
considered?
14. Hammurabi’s Code of Laws was
significant because it was the
first set of written laws and they
were…
A. primary
A. unfair to all people
B. posted on a Stele for all to
see and know
B. internal
C. Did not have matching
punishments
D. alternative
C. secondary
D. were cruel and unusual
18. What was the most significant
reason Egyptians first settled
along the Nile River in Egypt?
15. During the Neo-Babylonian
Empire, King Nebuchadnezzar II
rebuilt the city-states Ziggurat and
created a beautiful place of
worship for his wife. This was
called the
A. it provided transportation
and trade routes
B. religious ceremonies were
performed there
C. it served as a form of defense
from invasions
A. Beautiful Gardens
B. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
D. it supplied water for
agriculture
C. Plush Gardens of Assyria
D. Westerflora Garden Tour
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19. The Ancient Egyptian
civilization is directly south of
what large body of saltwater?
22. Which of the following is not a
characteristic of the Ancient
Egyptian economy?
A. the Red Sea
A. resources were controlled
by the pharaoh
B. the Nile River
C. the Mediterranean Sea
B.
D. the Pacific Ocean
the Pharaoh evenly
distributed resources
C. social classes established
specific jobs for the people
D. taxes were collected
through goods and labor
23. Ancient Egyptians were
polytheistic. Polytheism is a
belief in what?
20. Which number on the map
above indicates the continent
on which the Nile River is
located?
A. multiple gods
B.
religious sacrifices
A. three
C. one god
B. one
D. an after life
C. four
D. two
21.
h
ich of the following was not a
founding principle of the
Ancient Egyptian monarchy?
A.
the king or queen had
absolute power
A. Women could own a
business and operate as
an artisan
B. the people elected the
king or queen
B. women were not able
to own property
C. rulers claimed power by
“divine right” or god
chosen
C. women were held
accountable for crimes
D. slaves could move out
of slavery
D. women were able to
hold government
positions
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24. The role of men and women
differed in ancient civilizations.
Which of the following does
not accurately describe the
role of women in Egypt?
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27. Which of the following was a
cultural advancement of the
Egyptians?
25. Peasant life in Egypt revolved
around farming; peasant
farmers relied on the three
seasons of the Nile. During
which season did the Nile
overflow the banks of the river
and provide rich silt?
A. the planting season
B.
A. Ziggurats around 2100
B.C.E
B. Moveable Walls for War
C. City States
the irrigation season
D. Hieroglyphic writing
around 3000 B.C.E.
C. the harvest season
D. the flooding season
28. Egyptian pharaohs were
members of a dynasty. What
is the best way to describe a
dynasty?
26. Ancient Egyptians are best
known for building enormous,
detailed structures. Which of
the following does not
accurately describe the
pyramids of ancient Egypt?
A. a group of gods who sent
leaders to rule Egypt
B.
the governing body that
was elected by the people
of Egypt
C. a select group of priests and
scribes who supported the
pharaoh
A. they represent the
tremendous knowledge
Egyptians had of math and
science
D. a series of rulers from the
same family who ruled the
people to maintain order
and control.
B. they served as burial
chambers and monuments to
honor the pharaohs
29. The slave class in Egypt was not
very large, however was different
from Mesopotamia and India
because
C. they were used to store extra
grain and weapons in times of
war
A. you were a slave for refusing to
pay taxes
D. they contained personal
items of the pharaohs that
would be used in the afterlife
B. they were sacrificed to the
gods
C. you could move out of the
class
D. laws were unfair to you
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32. Historians relate the social classes
of ancient Egypt to a pyramid; at
the top is the pharaoh followed
by government officials and
priests. What is the name given
to a government that is heavily
influenced by religion?
30. In 1799 a soldier digging a fort
near the Nile found a large black
stone with three different types of
writing on it. What was the name
of this stone?
A. Kabul
A. theocracy
B. Hieroglyphic Stone
B. sarcophagus
C. Super Stone
C. census
D. Rosetta Stone
D. democracy
31. Historians have learned a great
deal about the life of ancient
Egyptians by examining the
mummies found inside the burial
chambers of the pyramids. Why
did ancient Egyptians spend so
much time preparing a dead
pharaoh’s body for burial?
33. The only source of freshwater in
Egypt is the Nile River; the rest of
Egypt is uninhabitable as it is
covered by the Sahara Desert.
What was one benefit of living so
close to a large desert?
A. the desert contained many
natural resources for trading
A. to prevent the evil spirits from
destroying the body before it
reached the afterlife
B. the desert provided the ideal
place for religious sacrifices
B. so that the soul or spirit of the
pharaoh would recognize its
body and could receive food
offerings
C. the desert formed a natural
barrier against invaders
D. the desert climate provided
warm weather and extreme rainy
periods
C. to prevent the body from
washing away in the yearly floods
that occurred on the Nile
34. Choose one civilization, either
Mesopotamia or Ancient Egypt to
write a brief “Who are the
(Mesopotamians or Egyptians)”
paragraph including geography,
economy/government, religion and
accomplishments of the civilization.
Use your answer document to
record your answer.
D. so that later civilizations would
remember all of the
accomplishments of each
pharaoh
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