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True-False Questions

Which statements below are true and which are false?

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
Neolithic communities engaged in trade to obtain obsidian to make sharp-edged tools.

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Question 2.
The Akkadians created a homogeneous empire in the third millennium B.C.E.

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Question 3.
Bronze was a difficult metal to work and easily broken.

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Question 4.
By 1900 B.C.E. Assyrians developed a trading network that reached as far as Afghanistan and southern Mesopotamia.

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Question 5.
The story of Isis and Osiris deals with the theme of death and resurrection.

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Question 6.
Egyptian pyramid-building and mummification show a concern for the afterlife.

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Question 7.
The pharaohs of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom showed signs of increased despotism and stopped many public works projects.

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Question 8.
Egyptian merchants brought back gold, timber, animal skins, and slaves from Nubia.

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Question 9.
Europe developed food-producing societies at the same time as Mesopotamia, since they had the same climate and terrain

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Question 10.
The plow was the most significant technological advance in Europe in the third millennium B.C.E.

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