Test 1 - Chapters 1-3, Geography Project 1

Question 1

Know the locations of the following places

Answer 1

Nile River, Euphrates River, Red Sea, Tigris River, Ur, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Bablon, Sinai Peninsula

Question 2

Which one of Jacob’s son was sold into slavery and became a chief assistant to an Egyptian king?

Answer 2

Joseph

Question 3

The Sumerians’ greatest accomplishment was this…

Answer 3

their writing

Question 4

This is the process used by the Egyptians to preserve bodies

Answer 4

Mummification

Question 5

The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms are the three divisions of what country’s history

Answer 5

Egypt

Question 6

This means “that makes fruitful”

Answer 6

Euphrates

Question 7

The Sumerian religion could be described as humanistic and this, meaning many gods.

Answer 7

polytheistic

Question 8

Who are the Patriarchs of Israel?

Answer 8

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Question 9

The study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures is know as this

Answer 9

Archaeology

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Flood?

Answer 10

God punished man for the height of evil man had reached

Question 11

What makes the study of history difficult?

Answer 11

God confused the languages, forcing the people to spread across the earth

Question 12

What was the result of the first human sin?

Answer 12

Man would have a sin nature

Question 13

How are evolution and humanism related?

Answer 13

Evolution is a form of humanism that destroys man and his relationship with God.

Question 14

What book of the Bible gives us the account of the beginning?

Answer 14

Genesis

Question 15

What area of land means “land between the rivers”?

Answer 15

Mesopotamia

Question 16

Which son of Adam and Eve built a foundation of rebellion against God?

Answer 16

Cain

Question 17

What abbreviation after a date means “before the birth of Christ”?

Answer 17

B.C.

Question 18

What was established to teach the sanctity of human life?

Answer 18

capital punishment

Question 19

What did God use Moses for in Egypt?

Answer 19

To direct His children out of Egypt

Question 20

What ruled united all of Mesopotamia under his rule?

Answer 20

Hammurabi

Question 21

What abbreviation before a date means “in the year of our Lord”?

Answer 21

A.D.

Question 22

Jean Francis Champollion was a French scholar that deciphered this

Answer 22

the Rosetta Stone

Question 23

What Greek historian wrote about ancient Egypt?

Answer 23

Herodotus

Question 24

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 24

Nile River

Question 25

ESSAY: By sending the 10 plagues, what was God teaching the Egyptians about their gods?

Answer 25

Include at least 3 main ideas that pertain to the question. Write your answer in paragraph form using complete sentences. Your essay must be written in a clear, logical order.

Question 26

a large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit

Answer 26

nation

Question 27

a payment from one nation to another

Answer 27

tribute

Question 28

a wedge-shaped writing

Answer 28

cuneiform

Question 29

an organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern

Answer 29

bureaucracy

Question 30

the rule by one city or people over other cities or peoples

Answer 30

empire

Question 31

the way of life of a group of people

Answer 31

culture

Question 32

a group of people living in its own land with its own government

Answer 32

nation-state

Question 33

the scattering of people over the earth

Answer 33

dispersion

Question 34

Under which pharaoh did the Egyptian Empire reach its greatest extent?

Answer 34

Thutmose III

Question 35

What was the greatest turning point of history?

Answer 35

the birth of Christ

Question 36

Which pharaoh was the first pharaoh of all Egypt?

Answer 36

Menes

Question 37

Sumerians were the first people in history known to use this…

Answer 37

the wheel

Question 38

Which pharaoh was a female pharaoh of Egypt?

Answer 38

Hatshepsut

Question 39

The Egyptian Empire reached its greatest extent under the leadership of this pharaoh

Answer 39

Thutmose III

Question 40

Who was chosen by God to be the father of the nation of Israel?

Answer 40

Abraham

Question 41

What was the center of the ancient world, was the land that God promised to Israel?

Answer 41

Canaan

Question 42

The more important part of culture is how people relate to who?

Answer 42

God

Question 43

Because man was made in the image of God, what did man’s special characteristics allow for?

Answer 43

fellowship with God

Question 44

Describe Egyptian civilizations

Answer 44

dynasties, hieroglyphics, medical advances, pyramids

Question 45

What is Hammurabi best remembered for?

Answer 45

laws

Question 46

After the Flood, where did Noah and his family go to settle?

Answer 46

Shinar

Question 47

What is Hammurabi best remembered by

Answer 47

Laws

Question 48

Who led in the building of the Tower of Babel?

Answer 48

NImrod

Question 49

From who did the Egyptians descend

Answer 49

Mizraim

Question 50

What was the greatest gift of the Nile River to the Egyptians

Answer 50

fertile soil