Quiz 1-- Early River Valley Civilizations

What are elements of civilizations?

Cities, canals and waterways, and moral codes.

Monotheistic means

Belief in one god

Polytheism

A belief in one god

Hieroglyph

Writing system using symbols or pictures to mean objects or concepts

Pictograph

A kind of writing that used pictures of objects.

The Mesopotamia region was famous for

Ziggurats

The economy of early civilizations was based around

Agriculture

"the gift of Nile"

Egypt

Sumer was located in a region called

Mesopotamia

Cuneiform is a type of

Writing

He ancient book tells the story of a mythical king and a worldwide flood

The Epic of Gilgamash

What was needed as a surplus to help create trade between cultures?

Crops

The more backward a civilization is, the more it trades with others.

False.

An advanced society is marked by

Commerce and trade

Egypt's famous structure

Pyramids

India's famous structure

Taj Mahal

Roman's famous structure

Colosseum

Greeks' famous structure

Parthenon

Chinese's famous structure

Great Wall