Ancient Civilization Midterm Practice

1. Items made by humans, including weapons, pottery and tools are called ___________________.

• artifacts
• fossils
• surplus
• nomads

2. The Study of how humans developed and how they related to one another.

• archeology
• anthropology
• fossils
• artifacts

3. The method used to estimate how old an object is by measuring how much carbon 14 a skeleton contains is called ________________________________________________.

• artifacts
• fossils
• radiocarbon dating
• surplus

4.__________________________ are traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock.

• fossils
• artifacts
• surplus
• nomads

5. The nearly three million year old hominid was nicknamed ________________________.

• John
• Lucy
• Jericho
• nomad

6. ________________________ means to tame plants and animals for human use

• domesticate
• surplus
• nomads
• fossils

7. ___________________________________ discovered nearly an entire skeleton of a female hominid in Ethiopia that dated back almost 3 million years.

• Mary Leakey
• Donald Johanson
• Jericho
• Lucy

8. The __________________________________________ were built by Nebuchadnezzar for his wife because she missed their homeland.

• ziggurat
• Sargon
• hanging gardens
• city state

9. A skilled worker who could make pottery, cloth, etc.

• artisans
• warrior
• King
• scribe

10. The writing system created by the Sumerians

• city state
• the alphabet
• irrigation
• cuneiform