1st Quarter Practice CRT

10/6/08

• Mesopotamia’s climate can be describe as ……

• Dry and Hot

• Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth and pottery.

• Artisans

• Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi

• People who study and write about the past…….

• Historians

• The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform

• The center of the Chaldean empire was

• Babylon

• A mixture of cooper and tin is called

• bronze

• Times of extreme cold when sheets of ice covered the earth

• Ice Age

• ________ studies artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past

• Archeologists

• The first kings were probably ________

• War heroes

• What are the three main Sumerian inventions?

• Sailboat• Wheel • Plow

• Taming an animal or plant for human use…..

• domesticate

• ___________ helped spread ideas around the world

• trade

• Also known as Menes, he united Upper and Lower Egypt…….

• Narmer

• The natural barrier that protected Egypt in the south was……

• cataracts

• The Nile Rivers flooding could be described as …….

• Gentle and dependable

• ________ was a collection of spells and prayers used to obtain the afterlife

• Book of the Dead

• Forced payment sent the pharaoh from conquered peoples …..

• Tribute

• An embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips….

• mummy

• A line of rulers that passes from father to son ……

• dynasty

• The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh’s body from decomposing was …..

• embalming

• Who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion?

• Akhenaton or Amenhotep

• The woman pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian Economy?

• Hatshepsut

• Jewish religious teachers are called

• Rabbi

• Warrior-farmer who was anointed king by the prophet Samuel

• Saul

• The faith of the Israelites become known are

• Judaism

• A person who claims to be instructed by God to share God’s words……

• Prophet

• The wise sayings of Solomon that were written down are called …..

• proverbs

• Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert?

• Moses

• Who wrote many of the Psalms?

• David

• Where was the Mayan civilization located?

• In the dense forests of the Yucatan Peninsula

• What did Hunters and gathers do?

• Moved constantly in search of food

• A group of traveling merchants …….

• caravan

• Jews met on Sabbath to pray and discuss their religion here…..

• synagogues

• Food prepared according to Jewish dietary law……

• kosher

• The idea that the law should apply to everybody equally is called……

• Rule of law

• How do scientists believe people crossed from Asia to North America?

• Used a land bridge

• Why did the Maya seek captives in war?

• To offer as human sacrifices to gods

• What was adobe?

• Sun dried mud brick

• How could commoners in Aztec society join the noble class?

• By acting bravely in war

• How were people able to survive in the dry deserts of the Southwest?

• By irrigating crops

• Who was Hernan Cortes?

• The man conquered the Aztecs

• How did Pizarro conquer the Inca?

• By capturing Atahualpa