Social Studies Chapter 2 Review Quiz

In class, students have each answered the review questions at the end of chapter 2.  We have gone over the answers in class, so now their sheet can act as a study sheet.  If your child has forgotten his or her study sheet at school, Ethan Sherwin has kindly allowed me to post his up here on the blog so students can have something to study at home if they forgot theirs.
Thanks Ethan!

Social Studies 7 – Chapter 2  “From Sumer to Canaan”

By Mr. Ethan S.

Completion:

1.  The study of history is complicated by the dispersion of mankind which occurred after the confusion of tongues at Babel.

2.  The Fertile Crescent was an arch-shaped stretch of land that was an excellent place for growing crops. 

3.  The Sumerians were the first people known to have used the wheel, a simple device which is how used by everyone almost every day.

4.  Wedge-shaped cuneiform writing provided the world with perhaps the first written language.

5.  The land of Babylon/Canaan was the center of the ancient world.

6.  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are called the patriarchs, (founding fathers) of the Jewish nation.  

7.  Jacob son’s Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers. 

8.  A nation or a person living in its own land with its own government is called a

Nation- state.

Matching:

1.  Laws are rules people follow in living together. 

2.  Promulgation is making the laws known. 

3.  Equality under the law is when all people who commit the same crime are punished in the same way.

4.  Empire means  the rule of one city or people over other cities of peoples.

5.  A polytheist is one who worships many gods.    

6.  A monotheist is one who worships one god.      

7.  A humanist is one who makes men into gods.

8.  Bureaucracy means a group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern. 

Also, here is the quizlet link to the review set made for this quiz: http://quizlet.com/51401077/social-chapter-2-review-flash-cards/