Advanced Placement World History | Mr. Prindiville
Name : _____________________________________________________ Period : __________
Chapter 2 | First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies
Form 1
1. Which of the following civilizations developed
earliest?
a. Norte Chico
b. Indus Valley
c. Olmec
d. Chinese
6. Which of the following was a city of the Indus Valley
civilization?
a. Uruk
b. Teotihuacán
c. Harappa
d. Babylon
2. What modern state occupies the territory that was
once Sumer?
a. Iran
b. Pakistan
c. Ethiopia
d. Iraq
7. Which of the following statements is true of women in
early civilizations?
a. They gained greater equality with men as
cities offered them new public roles.
b. They did not work outside the home.
c. Although not usually involved in public life,
they continued to rule their families.
d. Men claimed the right to regulate the social
and sexual lives of the women of their families.
3. Which civilization produced the world’s earliest
written language?
a. Sumerian
b. Indus Valley
c. Egyptian
d. Norte Chico
4. What is the Mandate of Heaven?
a. An Indian belief that the gods created humans
and organized them into castes
b. A Chinese ideology that the monarch is an
intermediary between heaven and earth and has
divine favor as long as he rules benevolently
c. An Egyptian belief that the ruler was the son
of a god
d. A Mesopotamian ideology that the monarch is
an intermediary between heaven and earth and
has divine favor as long as he rules benevolently
5. Why did civilizations first emerge so late in human
history?
a. Only agricultural societies can support large
populations and sustain specialized or elite
minorities.
b. Tools that made it possible to construct cities
only developed in c. 3500 B.C.E.
c. Human brains were not large enough for
abstract, civilized thought until about 3500
B.C.E..
d. Only weather improvements after the end
of the Ice Age made civilization possible.
8. Kings in which early state were known as “Son of
Heaven”?
a. Egypt
b. Sumer
c. Nubia
d. China
9. What is the “Old Kingdom”?
a. The earliest Sumerian state, based on the city
of Ur
b. The Shang dynasty in China
c. The period of Egyptian history between 2663
and 2195 B.C.E.
d. The first civilization in Babylon
10. This early collection of laws lays down punishment
for crimes based on the social rank of the offender and
the victim.
a. The Seventeen-Article Constitution
b. Deuteronomy
c. The Code of Hammurabi
d. The Laws of Manu
Advanced Placement World History | Mr. Prindiville
Name : _____________________________________________________ Period : __________
Chapter 2 | First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies
Form 2
1. What modern state occupies the territory that was
once Sumer?
a. Iran
b. Pakistan
c. Ethiopia
d. Iraq
2. Which civilization produced the world’s earliest
written language?
a. Sumerian
b. Indus Valley
c. Egyptian
d. Norte Chico
3. What is the Mandate of Heaven?
a. An Indian belief that the gods created humans
and organized them into castes
b. A Chinese ideology that the monarch is an
intermediary between heaven and earth and has
divine favor as long as he rules benevolently
c. An Egyptian belief that the ruler was the son
of a god
d. A Mesopotamian ideology that the monarch is
an intermediary between heaven and earth and
has divine favor as long as he rules benevolently
4. Why did civilizations first emerge so late in human
history?
a. Only agricultural societies can support large
populations and sustain specialized or elite
minorities.
b. Tools that made it possible to construct cities
only developed in c. 3500 B.C.E.
c. Human brains were not large enough for
abstract, civilized thought until about 3500
B.C.E..
5. Which of the following was a city of the Indus Valley
civilization?
a. Uruk
b. Teotihuacán
c. Harappa
d. Babylon
d. Only weather improvements after the end
of the Ice Age made civilization possible.
6. Which of the following statements is true of women in
early civilizations?
a. They gained greater equality with men as
cities offered them new public roles.
b. They did not work outside the home.
c. Although not usually involved in public life,
they continued to rule their families.
d. Men claimed the right to regulate the social
and sexual lives of the women of their families.
7. Kings in which early state were known as “Son of
Heaven”?
a. Egypt
b. Sumer
c. Nubia
d. China
8. What is the “Old Kingdom”?
a. The earliest Sumerian state, based on the city
of Ur
b. The Shang dynasty in China
c. The period of Egyptian history between 2663
and 2195 B.C.E.
d. The first civilization in Babylon
9. This early collection of laws lays down punishment
for crimes based on the social rank of the offender and
the victim.
a. The Seventeen-Article Constitution
b. Deuteronomy
c. The Code of Hammurabi
d. The Laws of Manu
10. Which of the following civilizations developed
earliest?
a. Norte Chico
b. Indus Valley
c. Olmec
d. Chinese
Advanced Placement World History | Mr. Prindiville
Name : _____________________________________________________ Period : __________
Chapter 2 | First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies
Answer Key
Form 1:
1. a
2. d
3. a
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. d
8. d
9. c
10. c
Form 2 :
1. d
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. c
6. d
7. d
8. c
9. c
10. a