TCAP Review Benchmark Test 1 Mesopotamia

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TCAP ReviewBenchmark Test 1Mesopotamia

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• What event ended prehistoric times and started
  history?
• A. Fire was invented.
• B. The wheel was invented.
• C. Writing was invented.
• D. People began to migrate to other regions.

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• During the Old Stone Age before early humans knew
  how to farm, they survived by
• A. slashing and burning.
• B. stealing food from each other.
• C. planting crops on terraces.
• D. hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

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• What event allowed humans to move to cold
  climates?
• A. They invented stone tools and weapons.
• B. They invented metal tools.
• C. They learned how to create fire.
• D. They learned how to make warm clothing.

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• What started the New Stone Age?
• A. People made stone tools and weapons.
• B. People learned how to plant crops.
• C. People stopped being nomads.
• D. People moved to colder climates.

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• Timelines are useful visual tools because they
  allow the reader to
• A. learn which event is most important.
• B. learn the order of historical events.
• C. ignore dates and places.
• D. use oral history skills.

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• During the New Stone Age, food surpluses allowed
  more people to become
• A. farmers.
• B. fishers.
• C. warriors.
• D. artisans.

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• A society that has cities, a central government,
  and specialized workers is known as a
• A. Civilization.
• B. Farming village
• C. cities
• D. empire

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• The shaded area on the map shows what ancient
  civilization where rich farmland led to the
  growth of cities?
• A. Mesopotamia
• B. Egypt
• C. Babylon
• D. Fertile Crescent

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• Why can it be dangerous to live near a river?
• A. too much boat traffic
• B. earthquakes
• C. bad soil
• D. floods

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• Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?
• A. Tigris and Nile
• B. Tigris and Mali
• C. Tigris and Eurasia
• D. Tigris and Euphrates

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• The Sumerians believed in
• A. no gods.
• B. one god.
• C. many gods.
• D. Catholicism.

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• Which of the following best explains why oral
  traditions are important to a culture?
• A. Oral traditions tell a society how to live
  and what people consider important.
• B. Oral traditions tell a society what their
  laws should be.
• C. Oral traditions tell who should be in charge.
• D. Oral traditions keep the history of a group
  alive for future generations.

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• Hammurabis Code was important because
• A. it was based on oral traditions.
• B. Babylonia ruled the ancient world.
• C. the laws treated everyone the same.
• D. for the first time, laws were written down
  and penalties were given for breaking them.

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• Which of these was an advantage most early
  farming communities had over nomadic communities?
• A. availability of permanent shelter
• B. smaller population size
• C. less need for rules and regulations
• D. more opportunities to explore new lands

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• Which type of community is described by the flow
  chart?
• A. fishing
• B. hunter-gatherer
• C. farming
• D. nomadic

Plant Seeds
Weed Fields
Harvest Crops
Store Grain
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• The Phoenician alphabet made it easier for people
  to
• A. hire scribes.
• B. learn cuneiform.
• C. teach cuneiform.
• D. learn to read and write.

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• Who first taught the Israelites or Hebrews to
  practice monotheism?
• A. Abraham
• B. Hammurabi
• C. Saul
• D. David

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• Judaism had a great influence on
• A. Christianity.
• B. Islam.
• C. Both.
• D. Neither.

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• The Israelites left Canaan
• A. to spread Judaism.
• B. to conquer their enemies.
• C. to search for gold.
• D. because of famine.

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• The Jews left Judaea in 135 A.D.
• A. to explore the rest of the world.
• B. because the Romans forced them to leave.
• C. because the Greeks forced them to leave.
• D. to battle the Phoenicians.

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• A scientist who examines objects such as bones
  and tools to learn about the past is
• A. a historian
• B. an archaeologist
• C. a geologist
• D. an anthropologist

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• Why were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  important to the economy of early civilizations?
• A. They supplied power to grain mills.
• B. They had rich soil along their riverbanks
  making them excellent for farming.
• C. They were sacred sites of the gods.
• D. They often flooded causing the deaths of many
  people.

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• People who have no settled home are known as
• A. invalids.
• B. nomads.
• C. hunter-gatherers.
• D. travelers.

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• The time period before writing was invented in
  4000 B.C. is referred to as
• A. prehistory.
• B. the Middle Ages.
• C. ancient times.
• D. history.

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• What form of writing uses groups of wedges and
  lines?
• A. cuneiform
• B. hieroglyphs
• C. scripture
• D. symbology

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• Ruler has absolute power.
• Ruler rules for life.
• Ruler inherits position instead of being elected.
• All of the following describe
• A. a republic
• B. a democracy
• C. a monarchy
• D. a theocracy

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• A city-state is
• A. a city within a states borders.
• B. a city that is forced to pay tribute to a
  state.
• C. a city that is a capital of a state.
• D. a city and its surrounding land that is
  politically independent.

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• Which invention made the transportation of goods
  over long distances easier and faster?
• A. wheel and axle
• B. bronze
• C. stirrups
• D. saddle

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• Who studies the written records of human life and
  compares different cultural groups?
• A. an archaeologist
• B. a historian
• C. a geologist
• D. an anthropologist

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• I will increase your numbers very, very much, and
  I will make you into nations kings will be your
  descendents.I will be a God to you and your
  people (from the Torah)
• Which religion is the passage above associated
  with?
• A. Islam
• B. Judaism
• C. Buddhism
• D. Hinduism

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• The purpose of Hammurabis Code was to establish
• A. safe travels on roads.
• B. procedures for religious rituals.
• C. methods for hunting and gathering food.
• D. laws and penalties for breaking them.

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• Which field of study compares different cultural
  groups?
• A. anthropology
• B. paleontology
• C. geology
• D. psychology

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• Which description is evidence that a society had
  a barter economy?
• A. They stored the extra food they produced.
• B. They went from place to place looking for
  food.
• C. They settled on land that was good for growing
  their food.
• D. They traded their extra food for goods mad by
  other people.

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• Which development most contributed to the success
  of ancient Mesopotamian villages?
• A. terraced farming
• B. irrigation methods
• C. advanced mathematics
• D. papyrus records

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• Which of these time periods is a decade?
• A. 1100 to 1200
• B. 1899 to 1900
• C. 1350 to 1400
• D. 1010 to 1020