7th Grade History                                  Name: _________________________________________  Score:
Teacher: Mr. Cap   Quiz over  Chapter 2

1.  In God's plan for mankind we can see that he provides a ______________________ to follow through history.

2.  What is the scattering of people over the earth. _______________________________________

3.  When did this scattering take place? ___________________________________

4.  Abraham became known as the_____________ of Israel and lived in the city of ____________ in Sumeria.

5.  What do the names Tigris_____________________________and Euphrates _______________________mean?

  On the timeline below label the beginning of the Sumerian civilization, the Golden Age of Ur, and Rise of Hammurabi.

6.  What name is given to the land between the two rivers.  ______________________________

7.  Sumer lay between these rivers on a plain called ___________________________ where the tower of _____________ was built.

8.  The Sumerians were conquered by the Akkadian king _______________________

9.  Sumerians invented the _______________________________ and __________________________

10.  What name is given to the type of writing pictured below ?___________________________________________

 11. What is the wedged shaped tool used to make this writing?

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 12.  Sumerians were____________ they believed in many gods

13.  Name 4 things that the Sumerians worshipped.

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14.  What is a humanists? ___________________________________________

15.  What is the name for the step shaped towers built for worship. ________________________

16.  Abraham believed in the one true God and lived a life of _________

17.  Whose statue is depicted below? ____________________________

  18.  What is a bureaucracy?______________

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  19.  How did Hammurabi conquer Larsa? 

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  20.  Hammurabi had all his laws carved on a_________________________________________

  21.    What are laws?____________________________________________________________

  22.  What is promulgation? _______________________________________________________

  23.  List the four points in the cycle of world history

 1.  ______________________________________________

 2.  ______________________________________________

 3.  ______________________________________________

 4. ______________________________________________

 24.  The last great battle of __________________________

  will be fought in the valley of ________________________

 25.  Who were the three Patriarchs of Israel?

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 26. Describe the story of Jacob's favorite son Joseph?

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27.  Name the chief god of the Canaanites? ______________