Social Studies 1-6

Question 1

Is considered by many as being the greatest of the New Kingdom paharoahs

Answer 1

Ramses ll

Question 2

Is the term given to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 2

Torah

Question 3

In Greek means the land between the rivers

Answer 3

Mesopotamia

Question 4

Is the Jewish weekly day of worship

Answer 4

Sabbath

Question 5

Is using artificial means of bringing water to crops

Answer 5

Irrigation

Question 6

Is a mixture of the metals, copper, and tin

Answer 6

Bronze

Question 7

Is complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing

Answer 7

Civilization

Question 8

Is a group or band or traveling merchants

Answer 8

Caravan

Question 9

Wrote a legal code that covered most aspects of daily life

Answer 9

Hammurabi

Question 10

Was the western Asian people who conquered the Egyptians

Answer 10

Hykosos

Question 11

Is a family of rulers who pass power down through the family

Answer 11

Dynasty

Question 12

Was the name for the Egyptian writing system

Answer 12

Hieroglyphics

Question 13

Was Bette r known as the “boy king”

Answer 13

King Tut

Question 14

Is the belief in one, single God

Answer 14

Monotheism

Question 15

Is the worlds largest “hot” desert

Answer 15

Sahara Desert

Question 16

The term that means

“OLD STONE AGE”

Answer 16

Paleolithic

Question 17

Was the woman pharaoh that was focused on trade and the economy

Answer 17

Hatshepsut

Question 18

Was the structure in which the first pharaohs were buried

Answer 18

Pyramids

Question 19

Was the name for the Sumerian writing system

Answer 19

Cuneiform

Question 20

Was the chief God of the Egyptians

Answer 20

Re

Question 21

Led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert

Answer 21

Moses

Question 22

Is the worlds longest river

Answer 22

Nile

Question 23

Was times of extreme cold, when great sheets of ice covered the world

Answer 23

Ice age

Question 24

Was the archeologist who found King Tut’s tomb

Answer 24

Howard Carter