ABCTE: WORLD HISTORY EXAM
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What time period was the Paleolithic Age? - Correct Answers -600 C.E.
What is a Foraging Society? - Correct Answers -Composed of small groups of people
who traveled from point to point as the climate and available resources changed- were
nomadic
What is a Pastoral Society? - Correct Answers -a society that depends on domestic
animals for its livelihood
Thanks to a certain nomadic society, they began to experiment with securing a more
dependable food supply through the cultivation of plants. Which led to what? - Correct
Answers -Neolithic or New Stone
Neolithic Revolution - Correct Answers -The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled
agricultural lifestyle is this revolution.
During the New Stone, communities were being established, it provided them with a
sense of _____________ and helped them build sustain culture traditions. - Correct
Answers -Unity
What are the significant artifacts from the Neolithic? - Correct Answers -1. Hoes and
Plows
2. Pottery
3. Weaving
4. Wheels
5. Metal
Hoes and Plows were made by what? - Correct Answers -Stone, which formed into
farming tools.
Pottery was made for what? - Correct Answers -Cooking
Weaving was invented to shape what? - Correct Answers -Baskets and Nets
Wheels were invited for use on what? - Correct Answers -Carts
,Metal not only became a tool, but it became a what? - Correct Answers -Weapon
What happens if you combine copper and tin? - Correct Answers -It creates Bronze.
During what time period did agriculture societies became more complex, organized
economies, governmental structures, and religious organizations began to emerge to
keeps things as predictable and orderly as possible? - Correct Answers -Neolithic
What are city-states? - Correct Answers -A city that with its surrounding territory forms
an independent state. They share common cultural characteristics.
Where is Mesopotamia located? - Correct Answers -Between the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers
What were the three civilizations of Mesopotamia? - Correct Answers -Sumer, Babylon,
and Persia
Mesopotamia area was known as the what? - Correct Answers -Fertile Crescent
By 3000 BC, what had Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed? - Correct Answers -
Three major city-states: Ur, Erech, and Kish
Sumer - Correct Answers -The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which
existed for over 3,000 years.
Where was Sumer located? - Correct Answers -Southern Mesopotamia
Sumer developed the first... - Correct Answers -Written language called Cuneiform
Cuneiform - Correct Answers -A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols
represented words or syllables.
Were the Sumerians polytheistic or monotheistic? - Correct Answers -Polytheistic
Sumerians built temples called _______. Which were pyramids to appease their god. -
Correct Answers -Ziggurats
Beyond Cuneiform, the Sumerians developed two other things. What were they? -
Correct Answers -1. 12 month calendar
2. Math system with units of 60
The City of Akkad was ________ of Sumer? - Correct Answers -North
The Akkadians major contribution was they developed the first known what? - Correct
Answers -Code of Laws, which they wrote in Cuneiform (learned from the Sumerians)
, Where was Babylon located? - Correct Answers -It was located on the Euphrates River
near what is today Baghdad, Iraq.
The Code of Hammurabi - Correct Answers -the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian
king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its
entirety.
The Code of Hammurabi distinguished between why type of offenses? - Correct
Answers -Major and Minor
What is a Pharoah? - Correct Answers -A "king" who sat at the top of the social and
political order, acted as commander-in-chief and controlled all military occupations.
Where was Ancient Egypt located? - Correct Answers -Along the Nile River
Egypt has three kingdoms in one civilization, what were they? - Correct Answers -Old,
Middle, and New
The Egyptians used a writing system called - Correct Answers -Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics - Correct Answers -An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures
were used to represent ideas and sounds
The Egyptians were interested in astrology, which led to what? - Correct Answers -A
reliable calendar
In Ancient Egypt, their culture relied on luxury items such as - Correct Answers -gold
and spices
Egyptians were - Correct Answers -Polytheistic
In ancient Egypt, the first female ruler was Queen? - Correct Answers -Queen
Hatshepsut, ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom.
What was the Egyptian social structure? - Correct Answers --Pharaoh and royal family
-govt. officials, priests, scribes, military leaders, landowners and doctors
-artisans, craftspeople, merchants
-peasant farmers
-slaves
Who were the Nubians? - Correct Answers -People of the city of nubia who were taken
out by the Egyptians and left behind ruins.
Who were the Hittites? - Correct Answers -The first invaders from outside of the middle
east. They conquered Egypt and captured all of Mesopotamia.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What time period was the Paleolithic Age? - Correct Answers -600 C.E.
What is a Foraging Society? - Correct Answers -Composed of small groups of people
who traveled from point to point as the climate and available resources changed- were
nomadic
What is a Pastoral Society? - Correct Answers -a society that depends on domestic
animals for its livelihood
Thanks to a certain nomadic society, they began to experiment with securing a more
dependable food supply through the cultivation of plants. Which led to what? - Correct
Answers -Neolithic or New Stone
Neolithic Revolution - Correct Answers -The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled
agricultural lifestyle is this revolution.
During the New Stone, communities were being established, it provided them with a
sense of _____________ and helped them build sustain culture traditions. - Correct
Answers -Unity
What are the significant artifacts from the Neolithic? - Correct Answers -1. Hoes and
Plows
2. Pottery
3. Weaving
4. Wheels
5. Metal
Hoes and Plows were made by what? - Correct Answers -Stone, which formed into
farming tools.
Pottery was made for what? - Correct Answers -Cooking
Weaving was invented to shape what? - Correct Answers -Baskets and Nets
Wheels were invited for use on what? - Correct Answers -Carts
,Metal not only became a tool, but it became a what? - Correct Answers -Weapon
What happens if you combine copper and tin? - Correct Answers -It creates Bronze.
During what time period did agriculture societies became more complex, organized
economies, governmental structures, and religious organizations began to emerge to
keeps things as predictable and orderly as possible? - Correct Answers -Neolithic
What are city-states? - Correct Answers -A city that with its surrounding territory forms
an independent state. They share common cultural characteristics.
Where is Mesopotamia located? - Correct Answers -Between the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers
What were the three civilizations of Mesopotamia? - Correct Answers -Sumer, Babylon,
and Persia
Mesopotamia area was known as the what? - Correct Answers -Fertile Crescent
By 3000 BC, what had Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed? - Correct Answers -
Three major city-states: Ur, Erech, and Kish
Sumer - Correct Answers -The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which
existed for over 3,000 years.
Where was Sumer located? - Correct Answers -Southern Mesopotamia
Sumer developed the first... - Correct Answers -Written language called Cuneiform
Cuneiform - Correct Answers -A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols
represented words or syllables.
Were the Sumerians polytheistic or monotheistic? - Correct Answers -Polytheistic
Sumerians built temples called _______. Which were pyramids to appease their god. -
Correct Answers -Ziggurats
Beyond Cuneiform, the Sumerians developed two other things. What were they? -
Correct Answers -1. 12 month calendar
2. Math system with units of 60
The City of Akkad was ________ of Sumer? - Correct Answers -North
The Akkadians major contribution was they developed the first known what? - Correct
Answers -Code of Laws, which they wrote in Cuneiform (learned from the Sumerians)
, Where was Babylon located? - Correct Answers -It was located on the Euphrates River
near what is today Baghdad, Iraq.
The Code of Hammurabi - Correct Answers -the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian
king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its
entirety.
The Code of Hammurabi distinguished between why type of offenses? - Correct
Answers -Major and Minor
What is a Pharoah? - Correct Answers -A "king" who sat at the top of the social and
political order, acted as commander-in-chief and controlled all military occupations.
Where was Ancient Egypt located? - Correct Answers -Along the Nile River
Egypt has three kingdoms in one civilization, what were they? - Correct Answers -Old,
Middle, and New
The Egyptians used a writing system called - Correct Answers -Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics - Correct Answers -An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures
were used to represent ideas and sounds
The Egyptians were interested in astrology, which led to what? - Correct Answers -A
reliable calendar
In Ancient Egypt, their culture relied on luxury items such as - Correct Answers -gold
and spices
Egyptians were - Correct Answers -Polytheistic
In ancient Egypt, the first female ruler was Queen? - Correct Answers -Queen
Hatshepsut, ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom.
What was the Egyptian social structure? - Correct Answers --Pharaoh and royal family
-govt. officials, priests, scribes, military leaders, landowners and doctors
-artisans, craftspeople, merchants
-peasant farmers
-slaves
Who were the Nubians? - Correct Answers -People of the city of nubia who were taken
out by the Egyptians and left behind ruins.
Who were the Hittites? - Correct Answers -The first invaders from outside of the middle
east. They conquered Egypt and captured all of Mesopotamia.
