Chapter 1 Quiz
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Review for AP World History
1) What are the three Stone Age eras in order?
A) Neolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic
B) Mesolithic, Neolithic, Paleolithic
C) Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
C
2) The transformation that was most
responsible for moving humans toward
civilization was the
A) use of fire
B) growth of towns and cities
C) rise of agriculture
D) rise of specialized classes
C
3) Who developed a writing system with an
alphabet?
A) Sumerians
B) Chinese
C) Harappans
D) Phoenicians
D
4) Which group was the first to sustain a belief in
monotheism?
A) Sumerians
B) Egyptians
C) Harappans
D) Jews
D
5) Metalworking was important to agricultural
and herding societies for each of the following
reasons EXCEPT:
A) Farmers could use more efficient metal
hoes to work the ground.
B) Metal weapons were superior to those
made of stone or wood.
C) Artisans could improve their craft with
metal tools.
D) Large metal boats could be constructed,
improving trade.
D
6) Where did hominids emerge?
A) Eastern Africa
B) The Middle East
C) Madagascar
D) West Africa
A
7) Sedentary agriculture
A) emerged in East Africa and spread with
humans along migration paths
B) began after the abandonment of hunting and
gathering
C) started in the Middle East first but soon after
developed independently in other areas
D) arose in the river valleys of the Huang-He and
Indus River
C
8) This civilization’s language has yet to be
deciphered.
A) Babylon
B) Harappa
C) Yellow River
D) Mohenjo-Daro
B
9) Cuneiform and other writing systems were
important for River Valley civilizations in part
because they
A) helped organize elaborate political
structures
B) led directly to gender inequality
C) were used by humans to detail the
value of coinage
D) helped organize communities of
herders
A
10) Where do civilizations in the Neolithic
Era tend to develop?
A) River valleys
B) Beaches
C) Surrounded by mountains
D) Large, open plains
A
11) What is the most significant development in
the Neolithic Era?
A) Writing Systems
B) Mesopotamia
C) Migration
D) Agriculture
D
12) The Egyptians developed all of the
following EXCEPT
A) Fractions
B) a 24 hour day
C)Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication
D) The concept of zero
D
13) Which of the following is NOT a feature of
Sumerian civilization?
A) a simplified alphabet of 22 letters
B) ziggurats
C) cuneiform
D) city-states
A
14) King Menes in Egypt accomplished
A) the development of rigid social classes
B) the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
C) the construction of the Pyramids of Giza
D) the conquering of Nubians and Syrians
B
15) When the Yellow River Civilization began,
they had not yet discovered which of the
following?
A) Writing
B) Agriculture
C) Pottery
D) Silk
A
16) All of the following are Mesopotamian
communities EXCEPT:
A) Babylonians
B) Assyrians
C) Phoenicians
D) Akkadians
C
17) Where did farming develop first?
A) Mesopotamia
B) Indus River Valley
C) Egypt
D) China
A
18) Stone tools, hunting and gathering, and an
increasing number of Homo sapiens are features
of the
A) Neolithic Age
B) Paleolithic Age
C) River valley civilizations
B
19) Unlike Mesopotamia, Egypt
A) did not have an effective method of irrigation
B) lacked a coherent system of writing
C) began a religion well after they were an
established civilization
D) retained a unified state throughout most of
its history
D
20) A civilization generally includes which of
the following components?
I – social classes
II – writing systems
III – governmental and religious institutions
IV - trade
A) I, III, IV
B) I, II, IV
C) I, II, III
D) All of the above
D
21) The Neolithic Age spans from:
A) 4,000 BCE - 0
B) 12,000 – 8,000 BCE
C) 3,000 – 1,000 BCE
D) 6,000 – 4,000 BCE
D
22) Unlike Mesopotamia and Egypt, Harappan
civilization
A) became a geographic center for a
unified, continuous culture lasting
millennia
B) is difficult to study because its writing
has not been deciphered
C) was secure from nomadic incursions
and invasions
D) developed a monotheistic religion
B
23) The Paleolithic Age did NOT include
A) agriculturally based economies
B) small family units
C) stone tools
D) cave art
A
24) River valley civilizations began to develop
around
A) 3,000 BCE
B) 6,000 BCE
C) 1200 BCE
D) 2,000 BCE
A
25) Who invented writing first?
A) Sumerians
B) Babylonians
C) Harappans
D) Egyptians
A
26) Hammurabi’s Law Code
A) did not apply to nobles
B) was mild in comparison to other law
codes from this period
C) decreed death for nearly every offense
D) differed by social status and gender of
the offender
D
27) The Sumerians used or had all of the
following EXCEPT
A) canals and levees
B) cuneiform
C) bartering
D) silk trade
D
28) Huang He means
A) Dynasty
B) social classes
C) Yellow River
D) Flooding Valley
C
29) What is the difference between Harappa
and Mohenjo-Daro?
A) Harappa had a military while
Mohenjo-Daro did not
B) Mohenjo-Daro had a king while
Harappa had local rulers
C) Harappa’s language has not been
deciphered, while Mohenjo-Daro’s has
D) Harappa’s farms do not flood, while
Mohenjo-Daro’s do
C
30) There are no written records created by this group.
A) Harappa
B) Xia
C) Shang
D) Jews
B
31) This River Valley civilization’s cities were
organized into square grids with roads and
walls surrounding the outside.
A) Egypt
B) Mesopotamia
C) Yellow River
D) Indus River
D
32) Akhenaten’s monotheism changed all of the
following EXCEPT
A) Egypt’s religious practices
B) Egypt’s art
C) Egyptian politics
D) Egyptian trade
D
33) Which statement about ziggurats is FALSE?
A) Ziggurats had a temple located at the top of
the structure.
B) Ziggurats were built to be wide and flat,
indicating the inherent weakness of mud as a
building material.
C) Ziggurats were often dedicated to a single god.
D) Praying statues were found in a ziggurat
temple, indicating the gods’ constant need for
devotion.
B
34) What is the first expression of human
culture archaeologists have found?
A) Ziggurats
B) The Book of the Dead
C) Cave paintings in Lascaux, France
D) Statues in Tell Asmar
C
35) Mummification provided the following
benefits:
I – provided a way for priests to learn about the
human body
II – provided a way for bodies to be prepared
for the afterlife
III – provided a way for certain Egyptians to
benefit from their wealth and status
A) I and II
B) I and III
C) II and III
D) I, II, and III
D
36) Social stratification was evident in Ancient
Egypt in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A) Royalty and elite were buried in elaborate
structures, while commoners were buried in
simple graves.
B) The priestly-scholarly class was literate, while
commoners were not.
C) Slaves technically existed below peasants, the
lowest social class.
D) All souls, regardless of status, were weighed
against a feather before the journey to the afterlife.
D
37) The Hittites in Anatolia were the first to
develop:
A) Copper technology.
B) Bronze technology.
C) Stone technology.
D) Iron technology.
D
38) The Fertile Crescent is also referred to as
the:
A) Huang He Civilization
B) Tigris and Euphrates River Valley
C) Nile River Valley.
D) Indus River Valley
B