Deck 3: River Valley Civilizations

Question 1

The Egyptian notion of ma'at stands for________.

A) order
B) eternity
C) power
D) equality

Answer 1

order

Question 2

Imhotep is best known for what achievement?

A) building the first pyramid
B) establishing a monotheistic religion in Egypt
C) conquering Upper Egypt
D) inventing Egypt's writing system

Answer 2

building the first pyramid

Question 3

The city that gave its name to the earliest Indus Valley civilization was ________.

A) Harappa
B) Mohenjo-Daro
C) Mehrgarh
D) Rupar

Answer 3

Mehrgarh

Question 4

Early Egyptian tombs,appearing around 3100 B.C.E.,were known as ________.

A) mastabas
B) nomes
C) hieroglyphs
D) pyramids

Question 5

About when did kings begin to rule in Egypt?

A) 7200 B.C.E.
B) 5900 B.C.E.
C) 1400 B.C.E.
D) 3100 B.C.E.

Question 6

Which of these was the site of one of Egypt's first walled cities?

A) Cairo
B) Thebes
C) Nagada
D) Luxor

Question 7

The Egyptian mother goddess was ________.

A) Isis
B) Osiris
C) Nepthus
D) Seth

Question 8

Hieroglyphs are Egyptian ________.

A) regional rulers
B) villages
C) gods
D) written characters

Question 9

The Middle Kingdom ran from about ________ B.C.E.

A) 2700 to 2200
B) 2030 to 1640
C) 4000 to 3600
D) 1540 to 1540

Question 10

Towns first appeared in Egypt in what period?

A) Old Kingdom
B) First Intermediate
C) Nagada II
D) New Kingdom

Question 11

Which of these was used to decipher ancient Egyptian writing?

A) the Narmer palette
B) the Sphinx
C) the Rosetta Stone
D) the Pyramid of Khefren

Question 12

The greatest of the Egyptian pyramids was built for what pharaoh?

A) Djet
B) Khufu
C) Menkaure
D) Amenhotep IV

Question 13

The first capital of ancient Egypt was ________.

A) Cairo
B) Luxor
C) Abydos
D) Memphis

Question 14

Farming began in ancient Egypt about ________ B.C.E.

A) 8000
B) 6000
C) 4000
D) 2000

Question 15

Amenhotep IV is best known as the pharaoh that ________.

A) conquered Nubia
B) united upper and lower Egypt
C) first developed Egypt's irrigation system
D) developed the cult of Aten

Question 16

Which of these kings unified upper and lower Egypt?

A) Menes
B) Narmer
C) Khufu
D) Mentuhotep

Question 17

The Middle Kingdom began when ________ reunited Egypt.

A) Mentuhotep
B) Djoser
C) Khufu
D) Khefren

Question 18

Which of these was one of the first grains cultivated in ancient Egypt?

A) barley
B) corn
C) rice
D) millet

Question 19

Which of these is an administrative district in ancient Egypt?

A) pharaoh
B) nome
C) mastaba
D) pyramid

Question 20

Which of these is Egypt's principal river?

A) Tigris
B) Euphrates
C) Nile
D) Indus

Question 21

Concerning the great pyramids,it is believed that they reflected the ________ of the power of the pharaohs.

A) earliest beginnings
B) end
C) decline
D) height

Question 22

The largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization contained about ________ people.

A) 40,000
B) 500,000
C) 8,000
D) 900,000

Question 23

The Narmer palette illustrates the role of Egyptian pharaohs as ________.

A) priests
B) military leaders
C) administrators
D) heads of state

Question 24

The first cataract on the Nile separated ________.

A) Upper and Lower Egypt
B) Egypt from the desert
C) Egypt from Nubia
D) the Nile delta from the Nile River

Question 25

Which of these was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?

A) the use of demotic
B) tomb reliefs
C) the study of the development of cuneiform
D) knowledge of ancient Greek

Question 26

Agriculture in ancient Egypt was dependent primarily on ________.

A) rainfall
B) lakes
C) the Nile
D) numerous small streams

Question 27

The Indus Valley civilization began with settlements from about________ B.C.E.

A) 3000
B) 7000
C) 5000
D) 1000

Question 28

What was the principal function of nomes in Egypt?

A) irrigation
B) organization
C) defense
D) urbanization

Question 29

At the center of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization were ________.

A) walled temples
B) barracks
C) ziggurats
D) citadels

Question 30

The story of Si-nuhe indicates that Egypt's elites drew their status from ________.

A) their position at court
B) their lands
C) inherited status
D) their wealth

Question 31

The role of Isis in the Osiris myth relates to her function as the Egyptian deity of ________.

A) rebirth
B) peace
C) kingship
D) death

Question 32

Which of these is closely associated to the development of government in Egypt,as it was also in Mesopotamia?

A) pyramids
B) conquest
C) irrigation
D) commerce

Question 33

Looking at the map "Land of the Nile," it appears that pyramids were generally associated with ________.

A) urbanization
B) rural areas
C) the cataracts
D) Upper Egypt

Question 34

Hieratic and demotic represent ________ of hieroglyphic writing.

A) more complex versions
B) developments
C) the first steps
D) carved versions

Question 35

The ________ first entered India around 1250 B.C.E.

A) Harappans
B) Aryans
C) Persians
D) Sumerians

Question 36

In relation to Egyptian leaders,Horus represents ________.

A) eternal life
B) power
C) military victory
D) wealth

Question 37

The "kingdoms" of Egyptian history represent ________.

A) dynasties
B) territories
C) periods of relative continuity
D) periods of invasion

Question 38

The peoples that conquered or replaced the Indus Valley civilization were ________.

A) herders
B) farmers
C) warriors
D) villagers

Question 39

Egyptian pyramids were above all ________.

A) fortresses
B) temples
C) urban centers
D) tombs

Question 40

Which of these patterns was illustrated by Akhetaten?

A) the emergence of cities in ancient Egypt
B) the height of the power of Egypt's pharaohs
C) the establishment of a new capital to signal a break with the past
D) the unification of ancient Egypt

Question 41

Which of these best explains why the Indus valley civilization was first thought to have derived from Mesopotamian civilization?

A) The two civilizations were very similar.
B) The Indus valley civilization was much later than Mesopotamian civilization.
C) The two civilizations shared a writing system.
D) Mesopotamia was explored first.

Question 42

It is probable that city-states did not develop in ancient Egypt because ________.

A) urbanization was limited there
B) villages developed into towns earlier than in Mesopotamia
C) grain production was limited
D) the central state developed early

Question 43

The fact that knowledge of the Indus valley civilization was entirely lost for millennia indicates that this culture ________.

A) had not reached the level of civilization
B) did not give rise to later cultures
C) was confined to a small area
D) had no writing system

Question 44

Our information about the Indus valley civilization is greatly limited because archaeologists ________.

A) have few artifacts
B) lack written texts
C) have found only one urban site
D) have found no graves

Question 45

After comparing the civilizations we have considered so far,what do you consider the essential elements of a civilization? Why?

Question 46

Which of these indicates Mohenjo-Daro was a planned city?

A) roads
B) the size of the town
C) the size of its buildings
D) fortifications

Question 47

How has our impression of Egyptian culture been influenced by the nature of ancient Egypt's most spectacular remains? How could historians correct that impression?

Question 48

Consider the practice of breaking history up into periods,as in Egypt's Old,Middle,and New Kingdoms.What are the strengths and weaknesses of this practice?

Question 49

Comparing ancient Egypt to Mesopotamian and Harappan civilization,what was the special role of the Nile River to Egyptian civilization?

Question 50

Which of these patterns was common to ancient Mesopotamia,Egypt,and Indus valley civilization?

A) the development of a writing system at the same time as urbanization
B) a powerful central state
C) rule by priests
D) the development of towns from villages

Question 51

The Aryans learned ________ from the Harappans.

A) herding
B) farming
C) warfare
D) writing

Question 52

How would you characterize the interaction of Harappan and Aryan cultures? What other cultures followed a similar pattern?

Question 53

The citadel of Mohenjo-Daro plays roughly the same role as Mesopotamian ________.

A) walls
B) cemeteries
C) shrines
D) ziggurats

Question 54

Looking at the map "Cities of the Indus," it appears that ________.

A) Most Harappan cities lay along the upper Indus River.
B) The Indus valley was only one of several early Indian culture regions.
C) Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were centers of two culture regions.
D) The first Indian civilization was closely associated with sea trade.

Question 55

Like Mesopotamia,Egyptian civilization was centered on ________.

A) the notion of rebirth
B) city-states
C) military power
D) a river valley