Revision_1st_Term_Social Studies Grade 7

Why was there a need for writing?

• To list how many workers were present in the temple

• To keep records of goods

• To establish communication between cities

• To improve trade and business

Which group of men in the ancient civilization of Sumer had the time to learn how to read and write a system which used 700 symbols?

• Tailors

• Traders

• Merchants

• Scribes

What stage of writing simplified the process vastly by using just one symbol for each individual sound we make (e.g.--B, D, K, etc.)?

• Rebus writing

• Ideographs

• Phonetic alphabet

• Pictographs

What stage of writing used pictures or symbols that directly meant what it looked like?

• Pictographs

• Rebus writing

• Ideographs

• Phonetic alphabet

In modern times, what has caused a dramatic revolution in all fields of human development?

• Computer

• Business

• Movies

• Internet connection

What were used by people to represent the types and number of goods they possessed 5,000 years ago?

• Metal coins

• Small clay tokens

• Hard wood panels

• Wall tablets

Who was the only Mesopotamian ruler known to have been able to read?

• King Tut of Egypt

• Queen Kubaba of Kish

• King Ashurbanipal of Assyria

• King Sargon of Akkad

What were the two most well-known city-states of the Classical Period?

• Athens and Rome

• Athens and Sparta

• Sparta and Troy

• Athens and Corinth

What did Solon reform in Athens?

• Art

• Military

• Democracy

• Architecture

Who founded the Spartan society?

• Socrates

• Homer

• Lycurgus

• Theseus