2014-2015 END OF THE YEAR TEST REVIEW
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Abraham
The story of the Jewish people begins with the
Bible's account of ___ traveling with his
family from Mesopotamia to a land called
Canaan
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Africa
Where do many scientists believe that human
life began?
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archaeology
The scientific study of ancient cultures through
the study of artifacts and other evidence is
called
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Babylon
What city became the center of Hammurabi's
Mesopotamian empire
The Book of
the Dead
served as a guide to the afterlife for dead souls
bureaucracy
The system of offices and officials that the
pharaohs relied on to handle the business of
government was called __
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fossils
are hardened remains of living
things that existed long ago, such as
plants, feathers, and bones
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granaries
Scholars believe that Indus Valley
people used ___ to store surplus
crops
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hieroglyphics
Ancient Egyptians developed a
writing system using drawings and
symbols to represent sounds called
25.
Hinduism
Major religion in India
26.
international trade
When one country trades with
another country is called
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In the United States
Outside of Israel, where does the
largest number of Jews live today?
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iron
Assyrians used ___ to build
stronger weapons
29.
irrigation
increased the amount of farmland in
the Fertile Crescent by bringing
water to fields
location, place,
region, movement,
human-environment
interaction
The Five Themes of Geography
Mary and Louis
Leakey
The first discovery of early human
remains in Africa was made by ___
Canaan
Where was the Promised Land that the Torah
says God promised to the Israelites as a
permanent home
caste
social class into which one was born in India
Chandra
Gupta I
founded the Gupta Empire
chronology
A timeline is a tool that historians often use as
a way of organizing events according to
31.
The purpose of the large ___ found in many
Indus Valley cities remains a mystery
32.
Menes
According to legend, the first
pharaoh and the leader who united
the kingdoms of Upper and Lower
Egypt was King
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monotheism
The Israelites practiced ____,
which means that they believed in
only one God
34.
Neanderthals
200,000 years ago, ____ appeared
in Europe and parts of Asia
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Priests
highest social class of the Aryan
caste system
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religion
A system of worship and belief,
including belief about the nature of a
god or gods, a(n) ____
37.
rich
Which word characterizes the soil of
the Fertile Crescent
38.
solar calendar
The Egyptians developed a calendar
with 365 days that was called
39.
sounds
The Phoenician alphabet was based
on
40.
specialize
With the development of farming,
people were able to __, or spend
most of their time doing one job
citadel
civilization
A ___ is a complex society that has cities,
organized government, and skilled workers
compass
rose
Which part of a map tells you where North,
South, East, and West are?
cultural
diffusion
The spread of cultural traits form one culture to
another is called
culture
The collection of beliefs, customs, practices,
and behaviors or a particular nation or group
is that group's ____
cuneiform
The EPIC OF GILGAMESH was written
entirely in ____ on clay tablets
17.
David
Which Israelite captured Jerusalem and made
it the capital of the Kingdom of Israel
18.
economy
The system that a community uses to produce
and distribute goods and services is called
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farming
The economy of early villages and cities was
based mainly on ____
20.
fertile
The soil of the Nile River Valley is best
characterized as
fertile soil,
fresh water,
and seeds
What important resources did early people
need to create a food surplus?
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stone
The earliest tools were made from ___
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strategy
Kautilya and Chandragupta formed a(n) __ that involved attacking Magadha
43.
subcontinent
The Indian __ is a landmass separated from the rest of Asia by the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush
44.
Sumer
___ is important in world history because it was the world's first civilization
45.
surplus
When early farmers grew more food than they needed to feed themselves, they had a ___
46.
technology
Without the benefits that came from developing different kinds of ____, the lives of early humans
were harsh and short
they domesticated plants and
animals
People were first able to start living in settled communities when
48.
transportation
What difference between the civilizations of Egypt and Nubia were the Nile cataracts responsible for
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the use of fire
Which technology had a major effect on early human development?
50.
Vedas
For many years the __, or holy scriptures, of the Aryans were passed down by word of mouth
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