Question 1

What helped spread ideas around the world?

Accepted Answer

Trade

Question 2

What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians to build that helped make its army stronger?

Accepted Answer

Stronger Iron

Question 3

A long poem that tells the story of a hero

Accepted Answer

Epic

Question 4

What revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age?

Accepted Answer

Farming

Question 5

Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops

Accepted Answer

Irrigation

Question 6

A grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake

Accepted Answer

Ziggurat

Question 7

Traces of plants or animals preserved in rock

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Fossils

Question 8

A group of many different lands under one ruler

Accepted Answer

Empire

Question 9

People who study heavenly bodies

Accepted Answer

Astronomers

Question 10

What is the early period of history known as to Historians?

Accepted Answer

Stone Age

Question 11

Who wrote a legal code of laws that covered most areas of daily life?

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi

Question 12

People who regularly move from place to place

Accepted Answer

Nomads

Question 13

Things made by humans long ago

Accepted Answer

Artifacts

Question 14

World's longest river

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 15

Where did the first civilizations develop next to which helped with farming?

Accepted Answer

In River Valleys

Question 16

This area is known as the"cradle of civilization."

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 17

Record keepers who become government officials because they could read and write.

Accepted Answer

Scribes

Question 18

Largest desert in the world

Accepted Answer

Sahara

Question 19

A plant used in papermaking

Accepted Answer

Papyrus

Question 20

What Egyptian invention was used to prevent the pharaoh's body from decomposing?

Accepted Answer

Embalming

Question 21

What is the land around the Nile River delta known as?

Accepted Answer

Lower Egypt

Question 22

What was the result of the river flooding every year in Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Fertile Soil

Question 23

Who was believed to be the son of Re, the sun god?

Accepted Answer

Pharoahs

Question 24

A female pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy.

Accepted Answer

Hatshepsut

Question 25

Open areas used for meeting places and markets

Accepted Answer

Agora

Question 26

Thinkers who ponder the questions about life

Accepted Answer

Philosophers

Question 27

Which group focused on military service in their polis?

Accepted Answer

Spartans

Question 28

Sparta used this group to control its citizens

Accepted Answer

Military

Question 29

Greek citizens were free,native-born men, who had what?

Accepted Answer

Land

Question 30

Early Greeks survived by fishing, herding animals, and what other way?

Accepted Answer

Trading

Question 31

Form of government used by the Spartans

Accepted Answer

Oligarchy

Question 32

Another name for a tiny, independent country

Accepted Answer

Polis

Question 33

Which astronomer said the sun was at the center of the universe?

Accepted Answer

Aristarchus

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