World History Semester I Exam

scientist who studies human history by digging up artifacts

• archaeologists
• anthropologists
• scientists
• none of the choices

study the origin, behavior and cultural development of humans

• archaeologists
• anthropologists
• scientists
• none of the choices

the earliest part of the Stone Age where stone tools were used

• Ice Age
• Paleolithic
• Byzantine
• Dark Age

means New Stone Age

• Neolithic
• Ice Age
• Dark Age
• none of the choices

Neolithic Age- 5,500- 3,500 BC; shift from ______ to farmers in a community

• settlers
• hunters
• warriors
• cave men

land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Mesopotamia

• present day Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria

• Fertile Crescent

• all of the choices

first law system of laws and punishment

• Mesopotamian code

• Babylonian code

• Hammurabi codex

• Hammurabi code

famous for being the capital city of the Babylonian Empire, had the hanging gardens

• Babylon

• Chaldean

• Ninevites

• Assyrians

Chaldean king of the Babylonian Empire; famous for attacking Judah and destroying Solomon's temple; rebuilt Babylon;

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Balthazar

• Babylon

• Hammurabi

Stone was transported to the pyramids by rolling the stones onto _____, loading them onto barges and floating them down to the building sites.

• donkeys

• camels

• pillars

• logs