WH Ch 1 Test

Question 1

5 innovations of the Summerians

Answer 1

Cuneiform
Wagon wheel
Sundial
Bronze

Question 2

3 mathematical and scientific advances of the Sumerians

Answer 2

Devised # system based on 60
Geometry
Charted heavenly constellations

Question 3

This epic poem told of King Gilgamesh exploits

Answer 3

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 4

2 rivers that make up the Nile River

Answer 4

Blue Nile

White Nile

Question 5

3 time periods of Egyptian history and the time period they existed

Answer 5

Old Kingdom 2700bc-2000bc
Middle Kingdom 2055-1670 BC
New Kingdom 1550-1070

Question 6

What was the city of the dead

Answer 6

Large and small pyramid for ? And masons

Question 7

Egyptians learned how to make bronze for tools and weapons and how to master the use of a horse drawn chariots from which group of people

Answer 7

Hyksos

Question 8

One of the first Egyptian women to become a pharaoh

Answer 8

Harsheasut

Question 9

This Pharoah tried to make Egyptian monotheistic

Answer 9

Kheuaten

Question 10

4 levels of Egyptian society hierarchy

Answer 10

Pharoah
Priests
Merchants, artisans, scribe and tax collector
Peasants