Ancient Civilizations

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1. Cuneiform was first developed in southern Mesopotamia by which people?

   • Phoenicians
   • Sumerians
   • Romans
   • Olmecs

2. The pyramids at Giza were built as monumental tombs during which ancient civilization?

   • Minoan civilization
   • Shang China
   • Indus civilization
   • Ancient Egypt

3. Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were major urban centers of which Bronze Age civilization?

   • Indus civilization
   • Maya civilization
   • Roman civilization
   • Aksumite civilization

4. In classical Athens, eligible male citizens could vote directly in which institution?

   • The Roman Senate
   • The Persian court
   • The Assembly
   • The Egyptian priesthood

5. The enormous ancient city of Teotihuacan developed in which region?

   • Andean South America
   • Central Mexico
   • The Nile delta
   • Northern China

6. Why were Rome’s Twelve Tables historically significant?

   • They recorded Egyptian religious hymns
   • They mapped all Roman roads
   • They ended the Roman Empire
   • They publicly set out an early body of Roman law

7. Oracle-bone inscriptions provide some of the earliest surviving written records from which Chinese dynasty?

   • Shang
   • Han
   • Tang
   • Ming

8. Which ruler reorganized and expanded the Persian Royal Road to support Achaemenid administration?

   • Cyrus the Younger
   • Xerxes II
   • Darius I
   • Artaxerxes IV

9. Carthage began as a colony founded by seafaring settlers from which eastern Mediterranean city?

   • Sparta
   • Alexandria
   • Knossos
   • Tyre

10. What was a quipu used for in the Inca state?

    • Casting bronze weapons
    • Recording information with knotted cords
    • Printing books
    • Predicting eclipses with mirrors