QoD Archive

Quiz of the Day

1.

WHI.2a  Where did the first modern humans originate?

A) Central Asia
B) Eastern Africa
C) Southern Asia
D) Northern Europe

2.



WHI.2c The innovation shown above was first created during the ________ Era.

A) Neolithic
B) Paleolithic
C) Mesozoic
D) Jurassic

3.

WHI.3a  This civilization was located on the “lower” Nile River

A) Egyptian
B) Sumerian
C) Nubian
D) Hebrew

4.

WHI.3b  The social structure of the early civilizations can be identified as __

A) flexible
B) intolerant of slavery
C) rigid
D) lacking social classes

5.

WHI.3a The continued fertility of the soil in ancient Egypt was due mainly to

A) an irrigation network connected to the Tigris River
B) crop rotation
C) favorable rainfall
D) the annual floods of the Nile

6.

WHI.3b  This system of law assigned a specific punishment for each violation.

A) Twelve Tables
B) Hammurabi’s Code
C) Torah
D) Ten Commandments

7.

WHI.3a Pyramids : Egypt,   ______________: ________________

A) Statue of Liberty, Canada
B) Petra, Switzerland
C) Stonehenge, England
D) Hanging Gardens, Çatalhöyük

8.

WHI.3a Define Fertile Crescent.

A) The science of farming.
B) A Neolithic settlement in Anatolia.
C) A relic found by an archaeologist.
D) A well-irrigated area in the Middle East where the first civilizations were born.

 

9.

WHI.3a Write down the four colors above on your paper, and next to each color name the civilization that lived in that area of the map (2 points each, 10 pts for all four correct)

(Example:

Bonus

Purple: This Civilization

Orange: That Civilization ... etc.)

 

10. Look at the map below - what country is located directly south of the physical feature at #10?

 

 

 

 

Bonus

WHI.2d Name the two rivers located in the middle of the Fertile Crescent (5 points each- spelling counts!)