1. Which were the first civilisations?
FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND ANCIENT GREECE
a) Mesopotamia, India, Ancient Egypt and China.
b) Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome.
c) Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Europe.
2. Who forms part of the state?
a) The organisation formed by the city governors and
the government officials.
b) Everyone who lives in a territory.
c. The city governors who live in the territory.
3. Why was writing invented?
a) To write novels.
b) To record commercial transactions.
c) To publish laws and rules.
4. What does the social pyramid reflect?
a) The social groups according to their power and
the quantity of people who integrate each one of
them.
b) The social groups according to their power.
c) The social groups according to the quantity of
people who integrate each one of them.
5. Why is the Code of Hammurabi famous?
a) Because Hammurabi was the most important
leader of that period.
b) Because it affected lots of people at that period.
c) Because it was the first one or one of the first
ones to be written
6. Which ones were the main rivers in
Mesopotamia?
a) Nile and Tigris
b) Tigris and Euphrates
c) Nile and Euphrates
7. How do you call the independent cities that have
their own state?
a) City states
b) Independent cities
c) Autonomic cities
8. Which civilisations ruled Mesopotamia?
a) Firstly the Sumerians, then the Akkadians,
followed by the Babylonians and the Assyrians
b) Firstly the Sumerians, then the Assyrians and
finally the Babylonians
c) Firstly the Sumerians, then the Akkadians,
followed by the Assyrians and finally the Babylonians
9. Which power did the king have in Sumer?
a) Only the political power
b) The political and the religious power.
c) He was the high priest, so he had only the
religious power.
10. Which Mesopotamian contributions are still on
nowadays?
a) The current medicine is based on the
Mesopotamian medicine.
b) One year has 12 months, one day has 24 hours
and then, the sexagesimal system of numeration in
which every unit is divided into 60 smaller units; still
used today for measuring time and angles.
c) Current churches have the same style as
Mesopotamian temples.
11. Which of the following elements characterise
Mesopotamian architecture?
a) The brick as the main building material. Tiles were
used to decorate brick walls and semi-circular arches
and vaults.
b) The brick as the main building material. Tiles were
used to decorate brick walls and curved vaults.
c) The arch as the main building material. Tiles were
used to decorate walls and semi-circular arches and
vaults.
12. Which was the Mesopotamian and Egyptian
religion?
a) Monotheistic
b) Multitheistic
c) Polytheistic
13. How do you call the Mesopotamian stepped
pyramid with a temple on top?
a) Hypogeum
b) Ziggurat
c) Mesopotamian pyramid
14. What was the role of the Nile in Ancient Egypt?
a) To fertilise the narrow strip of land which it flows
across and it was a natural barrier.
b) To fertilise the narrow strip of land which it flows
across and served as a way for communication.
c) To fertilise the narrow strip of land which it flows
across and divided ancient Egypt in two.
15. Who was the most important political and
religious authority in Ancient Egypt?
a) The absolute king
b) The Pharaoh
c) The President
16. How was the writing of the Egyptians called?
a) Cuneiform
b) Egyptologist
c) Hieroglyphic
17. Which Egyptian contributions are still on
nowadays?
a) The decimal system (with 10 as its base) and
mummification
b) The decimal system (with 10 as its base) and the
years of 365 days
c) The decimal system (with 10 as its base) and
Egyptian religion
18. Why did they mummify corpses?
a) For hygienic purposes, to avoid unpleasant smells.
b) For aesthetic reasons, to preserve the beauty of a
corpse.
21. Which are the three geographical areas where
Greek civilisation developed?
a) European Greece, Turkey’s coast, the Greek
Islands and the south of Italy.
b) The Balkan Peninsula, Peloponnese Peninsula and
Asia Minor.
c) European Greece, Asian Greece and African
Greece.
22. What is the polis?
a) The police force in Ancient Greece.
b) The most important part of the Greek cities.
c) The name given to Greek city-states.
23. What is the title of the literary work that tells the
story of the Trojan Wars?
a) The Iliad.
b) The Odyssey.
c) The Trojan War.
24. What was the ostracism?
a) Dangerous or troublesome citizens were expelled
from the polis.
b) The room where women used to be in a Greek
house.
c) Fortified part of a Greek city.
25. Why did some Greeks abandon their polis and
funded colonies?
a) Because the authorities of the polis wanted to
extend their domains and create new colonies.
b) Because bad harvests and the population increase
caused food shortage for everyone.
c) For religious reasons, to preserve the body and
ensure its resurrection .
19. How did they decipher the hieroglyphics?
a) Thanks to Champollion, who found an Egyptian
dictionary.
b) Thanks to a stone where the same text appears in
three different languages.
c) Thanks to the Egyptians, who carried on speaking
and writing in the Egyptian language.
20. How was Egyptian architecture?
a) Massive constructions and curved roofs
b) Massive constructions and tiles roofs
c) Massive constructions and the use of flat roofs
supported by lintels
c) Because they thought they were going to find
unexplored riches in other lands.
26. What were the social groups in which the Greek
society was divided? (from most important to least
important)
a) Aristocracy, barbarians, foreigners and the
liberated and last the slaves.
b) Aristocracy, citizens, foreigners and slaves.
c) Aristocracy, free citizens, the women, slaves and
last the foreigners.
27. Who were the metics?
a) Foreigners living in the Greek cities.
b) Aristocrats, rich people.
c) Slaves living in Athens.
28. What is the name of the central square in Greek
cities?
a. Agora.
b) Acropolis.
c) Stoa.
29. Who was Alexander the Great?
a) The first king of Sparta.
b) King of Macedonia that conquered the Persian
Empire.
c) The greatest of the Greek philosophers.
30. Who were the barbarians?
a) The foreigners who lived in Athens.
b) The elite in the Greek army.
c) Peoples that didn’t speak Greek language.
 31. Why is the city of Olympia famous? a) A civilization that developed in the island of Crete
a) Because in this city the Greeks carried out a sports in the Bronze Age .
competition called the Olympic Games. b) Barbarians that invaded Greece in the Dark Ages.
b) Because the Olympic gods lived in it. c) Warriors that used iron weapons and lived in
c) Because Olympia, the mother of Alexander the fortified acropolis.
Great lived in it.
37. In which discipline did both Socrates and Plato
32. When did the Greco-Persian wars happen? stand out?
a. In the 5th c. BC a) In medicine.
b) In the 4th c. BC b) In philosophy.
c) In the 6th c. BC c) In theatre.

33. Who was Pericles? 38. Which of the following was a famous
a) A political reformer who began the democratic Greek historian?
system in Athens. a) Herodotus
b) A military Athenian who defeated Persians in the b) Hippocrates
Salamis battle.
c) A leader of Athenian democracy in its time of
most splendor. c) Pythagoras39. What did the Greek sculptures
reflect
34. What is the name of the cultural mix of Greek in classical times?
and a) Solemnity with rigid postures.
oriental cultures that Alexander the Great had b) Feelings with expressive faces.
conquered? c) Beauty with serene faces and perfect bodies.
a) Polytheism.
b) Hellenism. 40. What is the difference between the Doric order
c) Mixsism. and the Corinthian order?
a) The Doric order has an apex ceiling and the other
35. Who is the most important god in Greek has a triangular pediment.
religion? b) The Doric order has a smooth capital while the
a) Zeus, god of the skies and storms. other has a capital decorated with acanthus leaves.
b) Ares, god of war. c) One was made by the Dorians and the other by
c) Aphrodite, goddess of love and feminine beauty. the Corinthians.

36. Who were the Minoans?