ERV Vocab quiz part 1

After years of training, a _______________ took a job in government to write down tax records or copy legal documents.

• Scribe

• Silt

• Barter

• Embalm

__________ such as potters, weaver, carpenters, and stonemasons provided skills and goods to make the Egyptian economy grow.

• Scribe

• Levee

• Decipher

• Artisan

By conquering many separate city-states, Sargon of Akkadia put together the first __________.

• Nobility

• Empire

• Trade Route

• Artisan

How would historians categorize most early religious organizations?

• Monotheistic
• Polytheistic
• Atheistic
• Agnostic

Where did the first civilizations rise?

• Along river valleys

• Near mountains

• Along the ocean front

• Near Seas

Specialization of labor means that people had different

• jobs

• religion

• homes

• governments

What led to the development of river valley civilizations?

• Agricultural practices, domestication of animals, and access to fresh water.

• Fresh water.

• Hunter-gatherers.

• No change happened.

The people in the region were able to water their crops by ...

• rain
• praying
• singing
• irrigation

Which group of people were at the bottom of the social structure in ancient river valley civilizations?

• Farmers

• Pharaohs

• gods

• Slaves

A society with cities, a government, job specialization, and social classes and shared responsibilities

• Oracle Bones

• Phoenicians

• Civilization

• Irrigation