Social Studies Exam 1st

Question 0

Paleolithic times

Answer 0

Main job was finding food
Never traded found things in their area
Lived in caves and tent like structures

Question 1

Neolithic times

Answer 1

People developed more skills in jobs
Started to trade when they settled in one place
Made shelters more permanent

Question 2

Who was chosen to lead in ancient Egypt

Answer 2

The son

Question 3

Why did the civilizations need a government?

Answer 3

Control rivers
Collect taxes
Build public works projects

Question 4

What did governments do?

Answer 4

Write laws
Collect taxes
Provide food supply
Maintain defense

Question 5

Embalming

Answer 5

Putting someone in a coffin

Question 6

Topography

Answer 6

What the land was like

Question 7

Fertile

Answer 7

Land great for growing crops

Question 8

Hieroglyphs

Answer 8

Ancient writing

Question 9

Papyrus

Answer 9

Fruit

Question 10

Pharaoh

Answer 10

The leader

Question 11

Sarcophagus

Answer 11

Place where they burry the body

Question 12

Famine

Answer 12

A food shortage

Question 13

Social classes

Answer 13

The jobs in the ancient world

Question 14

Peasants

Answer 14

The lowest rank social class

Question 15

Scribes

Answer 15

Writers

Wrote on papyrus

Question 16

Nomads

Answer 16

People who follow their food

Question 17

Delta

Answer 17

Where water spits out into a bigger body of water

Question 18

Vizier

Answer 18

News-taker for the pharaoh

Question 19

Why did people settle by the Nile river?

Answer 19

The land there was fertile

Question 20

Jordan river

Answer 20

Not good for farming

Question 21

Abraham

Answer 21

Judaism

Question 22

Siddhartha g

Answer 22

Buddhism

Question 23

Four noble truths

Answer 23

Buddhism

Question 24

Five pillars

Answer 24

Islam

Question 25

Old Testament

Answer 25

Christianity

Question 26

Dharma

Answer 26

Hinduism

Question 27

Brahman

Answer 27

Hinduism

Question 28

Karma

Answer 28

Hinduism

Question 29

Mosque

Answer 29

Islam

Question 30

Synagogue

Answer 30

Judaism

Question 31

Covenant

Answer 31

Judaism

Question 32

Shabbat

Answer 32

Judaism

Question 33

Bible

Answer 33

Christianity

Question 34

Vedas

Answer 34

Hinduism

Question 35

Allah

Answer 35

Islam

Question 36

Trinity

Answer 36

Christianity

Question 37

Reincarnation

Answer 37

Islam

Question 38

Muhammad

Answer 38

Islam

Question 39

Monotheism

Answer 39

Belief in one god

Question 40

Polytheism

Answer 40

Belief in many gods

Question 41

Caste system

Answer 41

Hinduism Social classes

Question 42

8 fold path

Answer 42

Buddhism

Question 43

Mecca

Answer 43

The god

Question 44

Before the rise of civilization people were nomadic. What does this mean?

Answer 44

They traveled place to place finding food

Question 45

How was the behavior of nomadic people regulated?

Answer 45

Through unwritten customs

Question 46

How did ancient people progress in their social organization?

Answer 46

Nomadic clans to villages to city states to empires

Question 47

The first civilizations developed near what two rivers?

Answer 47

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 48

Why did the first civilizations develop near river valleys?

Answer 48

Because annual flooding made the land fertile

Question 49

How did the first farmers cope with challenges posted by rivers?

Answer 49

They learned to control it and use irrigation systems

Question 50

What was the name of the area that gave birth to the first civilization?

Answer 50

Mesopotamia

Question 51

What do all civilizations need to survive and grow?

Answer 51

Resources

Question 52

What was the first civilization in the ancient world?

Answer 52

Sumer

Question 53

What are five key elements of a civilization

Answer 53

``` Centralized government Organized religions Arts Job specialization Social classes Writing ```

Question 54

How did Hebrews differ from other ancient people?

Answer 54

We're monotheism

Question 55

What was the most important religious duty of ancient people?

Answer 55

To keep their god happy

Question 56

What were temples called?

Answer 56

Ziggurats

Question 57

What stood at the top of every ziggurat?

Answer 57

A shrine

Question 58

What were the first laws written?

Answer 58

To regulate behaviors

Question 59

How did rulers use public works projects to ensure the city's supply?

Answer 59

Build irrigation systems, roads, and bridges

Question 60

How did cities change the way people worked?

Answer 60

People specialized in jobs for the first time.

Question 61

Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations

Answer 61

Surpluses in food meant that not everyone had to search for food

Question 62

Ranking people according to their jobs led to this

Answer 62

The development of social classes