Social Studies- Semester 1

Question 1

Transition of people from being nomads to settling down in one area

Answer 1

Neolithic revolution

Question 2

Things made by humans that anthropologists use to help them study the past

Answer 2

Artifacts

Question 3

Belief in many gods

Answer 3

Polytheism

Question 4

Belief in one god

Answer 4

Monotheism

Question 5

Time prior to the invention of writing

Answer 5

Prehistory

Question 6

The way of life of a society (beliefs, practices, values)

Answer 6

Culture

Question 7

Characteristics of a civilization

Answer 7

-population
-advanced architecture
-communication
-form of government systems
-division of labor
-social and economic classes

Question 8

Old Stone Age

Answer 8

Paleolithic Age

Question 9

New Stone Age

Answer 9

Neolithic Age

Question 10

Major rivers the earliest civilizations developed on

Answer 10

Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Indus

Question 11

Why did early civilizations develop along rivers?

Answer 11

Fertile soil, food, transportation

Question 12

Early people who moved from place to place in search for food

Answer 12

Nomads

Question 13

Ancestors of humans

Answer 13

Hominids

Question 14

Where is to believed where the first hominids lived?

Answer 14

Africa

Question 15

The system of Babylonian laws

Answer 15

Code of Hammurabi

Question 16

Another name for the fertile crescent

Answer 16

Mesopotamia

Question 17

Early form of writing developed by the sumerians

Answer 17

cuneiform

Question 18

Sumerians religious temples

Answer 18

Ziggurats

Question 19

Process of preserving the dead

Answer 19

Mummification

Question 20

Most feared warriors of the ancient middle east

Answer 20

Assyrians

Question 21

Top major religions

Answer 21

-Judaism
-Christianity
-Islam
-Hinduism
-Buddhism

Question 22

Oldest monotheistic religion

Answer 22

Judiasm

Question 23

What religions grew out of Judaism

Answer 23

Christianity and Islam

Question 24

How is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism different from other religions?

Answer 24

Their belief in one god

Question 25

Founder of Judaism

Answer 25

Abraham

Question 26

Places of worship for Jews

Answer 26

Synagogues

Question 27

Spiritual leaders in Judaism

Answer 27

Rabbis

Question 28

Religious symbol of Judaism

Answer 28

Star of David

Question 29

Son of God

Answer 29

Jesus

Question 30

Anointed one

Answer 30

Messiah

Question 31

Apostle who spread Christianity to gentiles

Answer 31

Paul (saul)

Question 32

Five Pillars of Islam

Answer 32

-prayer
-faith
-giving
-ramadan
-pilgrimage

Question 33

Muslim God

Answer 33

Allah

Question 34

Holy Book of Islam

Answer 34

Quran (Koran)

Question 35

Major geographical features of Greece

Answer 35

peninsulas. rugged terrain, many islands

Question 36

Things that united greek city-states

Answer 36

-mythology
-outsiders being inferior
-olympic games
-whenever attackers by foreigners

Question 37

War between people of troy and mycenaeans

Answer 37

Trojan War

Question 38

Government ruled by a hereditary king

Answer 38

Monarchy

Question 39

Birthplace of democracy

Answer 39

Athens

Question 40

Part of greek city where government buildings and temples were located

Answer 40

acropolis

Question 41

Lovers of wisdom

Answer 41

Philosophers

Question 42

The use of rational thinking

Answer 42

logic

Question 43

Second largest continent

Answer 43

Africa

Question 44

Bantu People

Answer 44

they migrated from west to east, became farmers

Question 45

how much of africa is desert?

Answer 45

25%

Question 46

What climate is there as you get closer to the equator in africa?

Answer 46

tropical