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| 10680439918 | One of the hallmarks of the administrative class in Egypt was that... | bureaucrats were literate | 0 | |
| 10680439919 | Refers to physical objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts | material culture | 1 | |
| 10680439920 | Which of the following was not true of nomadic groups? | Nomadic societies had little positive influence on settled peoples | 2 | |
| 10680439921 | In the second millennium B.C.E., Egypt invaded Nubia because.. | Nubia had gold fields | 3 | |
| 10680439922 | Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases | Hammurabi | 4 | |
| 10680439923 | One of the major difficulties in understanding the Indus Valley civilization is that | its written language cannot be read | 5 | |
| 10680439924 | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world, the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order | Ma'at | 6 | |
| 10680439925 | Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation (in modern Pakistan) and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials, such as metals and precious stones, from Afghanistan and Iran | Harappa | 7 | |
| 10680439926 | The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids | Memphis | 8 | |
| 10680439927 | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt | Papyrus | 9 | |
| 10680439928 | A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory | City-state | 10 | |
| 10680439929 | An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits | Civilization | 11 | |
| 10680439930 | People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and gathering wild edible plants and insects | Foragers | 12 | |
| 10680439931 | A body preserved by chemical processes or special natural circumstances, often in the belief that the deceased will need it again in the afterlife | mummy | 13 | |
| 10680439932 | A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown | ziggurat | 14 | |
| 10680439933 | Small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil | amulet | 15 | |
| 10680439934 | Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times | megaliths | 16 | |
| 10680439935 | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period | Paleolithic | 17 | |
| 10680439936 | In the governments of many ancient societies, a professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to be able to read and write using cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, or other early, cumbersome writing systems | scribe | 18 | |
| 10680439937 | A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words of syllables | Cuneiform | 19 | |
| 10680439938 | The historical period characterized by the production of tools from stone and other nonmetallic substances | Stone Age | 20 | |
| 10680439939 | The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution | Neolithic | 21 | |
| 10680439940 | The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C. associated with king Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century B.C. | Babylon | 22 | |
| 10680439941 | A system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. It was used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt | Hieroglyphics | 23 | |
| 10680439942 | Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdom. Amon patron deity of Thebes, became one of the chief gods of Egypt | Thebes | 24 | |
| 10680439943 | An alloy of copper with a small amount of tin, it is harder and more durable than copper alone | Bronze | 25 | |
| 10680439944 | The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between 8000 and 2000 B.C. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution | Agricultural Revolutions | 26 | |
| 10680439945 | Largest of the cities of the Indus Valley civilization, it was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of the Indus River in contemporary Pakistan | Mohenjo-Daro | 27 | |
| 10680439946 | The central figure in the ancient Egyptian state | Pharaoh | 28 | |
| 10680439947 | By the late Neolithic period, the people of Catal Huyuk had developed the use | copper metallurgy | 29 | |
| 10680439948 | The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C. | Sumerians | 30 | |
| 10680439949 | A large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king | Pyramid | 31 | |
| 10680439950 | The change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B.C.E. Also known as the Neolithic Revolution | agricultural revolutions | 32 | |
| 10680439951 | The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices | History | 33 | |
| 10680439952 | Family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa | Semitic | 34 | |
| 10680439953 | Socially transmitted patterns of acton and expression | Culture | 35 | |
| 10680439954 | Cities differed from Neolithic villages in two principal ways. Firstly, cities were larger and more complex than Neolithic villages. Secondly... | cities decisively influenced the economic, political, and cultural life of large regions | 36 | |
| 10680439955 | The earliest known civilization in India | Harappan | 37 | |
| 10680439956 | A first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.) | Chavin | 38 | |
| 10680439957 | People sharing common linguistic and cultural features that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C. | Celts | 39 | |
| 10680439958 | A fine, light silt deposited by wind and water | Loess | 40 | |
| 10680439959 | An Egyptian name for Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt, where an indigenous kingdom with its own distinctive institutions and cultural traditions arose beginning in the early second millennium | Kush | 41 | |
| 10680439960 | Chinese school of thought, originating in the Warring States Period with Laozi | Daoism | 42 | |
| 10680439961 | A hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America | Llama | 43 | |
| 10680439962 | Western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi | Confucius | 44 | |
| 10680439963 | In Chinese belief, complementary factors that help maintain the equilibrium of the world | Yin/Yang | 45 | |
| 10680439964 | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records | Shang | 46 | |
| 10680439965 | The first Mesoamerican civilization between 1200 and 400 B.C. | Olmec | 47 | |
| 10680439966 | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven | Mandate of Heaven | 48 | |
| 10680439967 | The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples | Druids | 49 | |
| 10680439968 | Capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. | Meroe | 50 | |
| 10680439969 | The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule | Zhou | 51 | |
| 10680439970 | What would the Mandate of Heaven do? | The heavens would grant the leader authority to rule | 52 | |
| 10680439971 | What were the Olmec and the Chavin? | The earliest civilization in the Western Hemisphere | 53 | |
| 10680439972 | How did the newer civilizations develop? | In more ecologically varied conditions, sometimes independent or under the influence of an older civilization | 54 | |
| 10680439973 | What is the Zhou Period remembered for? | The Mandate of Heaven | 55 | |
| 10680439974 | Why did the adverse climate and conditions make north China important historically? | It stimulated important technologies, political traditions, philosophical and religious traditions that are hallmarks of Chinese civilizations | 56 | |
| 10680439975 | How did the population in Mongolia (a steppe), Xinjiang (a desert) and Tibet (a highland plateau) survive with the lack of fertile river valleys? | The sparse population lived by herding | 57 | |
| 10680439976 | What was special about rice, despite the large amount of work needed to grow it? | Rice supported many people, allowing the south to have a larger population | 58 | |
| 10680439977 | What was the staple crop of southern China and what river valley was perfect for growing it? | Rice and the Yangzi | 59 | |
| 10680439978 | What were some technologies of the Spring and Autumn Period? | Fighters began to use horses, iron replaced bronze (600 B.C.E.) | 60 | |
| 10680439979 | Where did the new technologies of the Spring and Autumn Period come from? | From northeastern nomads | 61 | |
| 10680439980 | The great benefit that agriculture provided early farmers was | a dependable food supply | 62 | |
| 10680439981 | How were the Zhou Period cities set up? | In accordance to feng shui in a grid pattern | 63 | |
| 10680439982 | An ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea | Israel | 64 | |
| 10680439983 | A collection of sacred books containing diverse materials concerning the origins, experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Israelites | Hebrew Bible | 65 | |
| 10680439984 | A Greek word meaning "dispersal," used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland | Diaspora | 66 | |
| 10680439985 | Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.) | Akhenaten | 67 | |
| 10680439986 | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations | Mass deportation | 68 | |
| 10680439987 | A large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia | Library of Ashurbanipal | 69 | |
| 10680439988 | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age | Hittites | 70 | |
| 10680439989 | Under the Chaldeans, Babylon again became a major political and cultural center in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.E. | Neo-Babylonian Kingdom | 71 | |
| 10680439990 | Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.) | Hatshepsut | 72 | |
| 10680439991 | A set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek | Linear B | 73 | |
| 10680439992 | A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.) | Ramesses 2 | 74 | |
| 10680439993 | Semetic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. | Phoenicians | 75 | |
| 10680439994 | A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweh | First Temple | 76 | |
| 10680439995 | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. | Minoan | 77 | |
| 10680439996 | A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. | Shaft Graves | 78 | |
| 10680439997 | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom | Mycenae | 79 | |
| 10680439998 | An empire extending from western Iran to Syria-Palestine, conquered by the Assyrians of Northern Mesopotamia between the tenth and seventh centuries B.C.E. | Neo-Assyrian Empire | 80 | |
| 10680439999 | Belief in the existence of a single divine entity | Monotheism | 81 | |
| 10680440000 | City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by the Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. | Carthage | 82 | |
| 10680440001 | Historians' term for the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons | Iron Age | 83 | |
| 10680440002 | Many historians believe that the Hittites were the first civilization to develop the use of | Iron | 84 | |
| 10680440003 | While ancient Israel was a crossroads of trade, it had an inherent weakness because | it had few natural resources | 85 | |
| 10680440004 | Akhenaten's attempts to reform Egypt and reform the power of the king over the priests have led many Historians to believe that he supported | making the king a divine being | 86 | |
| 10680440005 | The Israelite Monarchy reached its peak with the reign of | Solomon | 87 | |
| 10680440006 | In Mycenaean society, the government bureaucracy | maintained a high degree of control over the economy | 88 | |
| 10680440007 | The Assyrian Empire is considered the first true empire because | it was the first to rule over far-flung lands and diverse peoples | 89 | |
| 10680440008 | The capture of Jerusalem, the destruction of Solomon's temple, and the beginning of the diaspora took place at the hands of the | Babylonians | 90 | |
| 10680440009 | The movement of the Phoenicians into the coastal region of the western Mediterranean Sea was likely caused by | Assyrian aggression and the growth of the Assyrian Empire | 91 | |
| 10680440010 | As a way to break up rebellious communities, the Assyrians | employed mass deportations from one portion of the empire to another | 92 | |
| 10680440011 | Trade was such all important aspect of Carthaginian life that | the Carthaginians did not require military service | 93 | |
| 10680446059 | Known as the Old Stone Age | Paleolithic Age | 94 | |
| 10680461999 | Time period name for Agricultural Revolution | Neolithic (new revolution with domestication) | 95 | |
| 10680466544 | irrigation | The control of the flow of water to support agriculture.( not important in egypt due to nile flooding) (important in mesopotamia) | 96 | |
| 10680485833 | What two rivers is Mesopotamia between? | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | 97 | |
| 10680496115 | what are some negative aspects of agricultural revolution | disease, social classes, gender roles | 98 | |
| 10680498964 | Pastoralism | the domestication of animals | 99 | |
| 10680506628 | how did the assyrians rule | terror tactics, deportation, and everyone had equality | 100 | |
| 10680518621 | who conquered mesopotamians | Babylonians | 101 | |
| 10680525031 | most important thing about sumerians | city-states | 102 | |
| 10680529007 | how did the assyrians control rule over rebellious people | terror tactics, deportation( spreading them out) | 103 | |
| 10680538999 | hammurabi | He designed a legal code in early Babylon that gave punishment based on crime and social status. | 104 | |
| 10680545827 | what are the three periods of egypt | Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom | 105 | |
| 10680547955 | what kingdoms in egypt were isolated | old and middle kingdom | 106 | |
| 10680552002 | what kingdom in egypt focused on expanison | new kingdom | 107 | |
| 10680553824 | akhenaten | early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with Aten, the sun god. introduced monotheism (belief in one god) to egypt | 108 | |
| 10680562021 | Ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Re | 109 | |
| 10680564247 | Meroe | late capital of nubia | 110 | |
| 10680569940 | who established the mandate of heaven | Zhou Dynasty | 111 | |
| 10680577094 | first dynasty | Xia | 112 | |
| 10680583033 | philosophies in china | daoism confucianism (same time as socrates and buddha) legalism | 113 | |
| 10680622099 | who decentralized feudalism | zhou dynasty | 114 | |
| 10680626028 | Feudalism | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | 115 | |
| 10681024881 | zhou dynasty owes allegiance to who | kings | 116 | |
| 10681029203 | Who brought knowledge of chariots to china | nomads | 117 | |
| 10681042660 | what emperor put an end to the warring states period | qin si huangdi | 118 | |
| 10681054477 | After King Solomon dies, what happens to Israel's kingdom? | israel splits into judah and israel | 119 | |
| 10681057190 | what is the southern kingdom of israel | judah | 120 | |
| 10681059624 | minoians | lived in the island of Crete; farmers and traders;built fast ships with 3 masts and a beam in front of the ship. writing not deciphered yet (linear a) | 121 | |
| 10681066085 | carthage | trade based | 122 | |
| 10681074478 | what city in carthage founded the phoenicans | tyre | 123 | |
| 10681076208 | Fall of the Bronze Age | unknown, possibly decline in trade and invaders by the sea peoples | 124 |
