STS (PRELIM) EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Transportation - Answer-Was significant during Ancient Times because people were trying to go to
places and discover new horizons.
Communication - Answer-Record-keeping was also important since they needed to remember the
places they had been to and document the trades they made with each other.
Weapons and Armors - Answer-Important as well in the discovery of new places or the establishment of
new alliances with other tribes.
Conservation of Life - Answer-The early people might have been successful in harnessing the rich
resources that the world could provide, but their survival post a grade problem.
Sumeria - Answer-Located at the southernmost tip of ancient Mesopotamia.
Sumerians - Answer-Known for their high degree of cooperation with one another and their desire for
great things.
, Cuneiform - Answer-It is a system that utilizes word pictures and triangular symbols which are carved
on clay using wedge instruments and then left to dry.
Uruk City - Answer-It is a great wonder not only because it is considered to be the first true city in the
world but also for the way it was erected.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur - Answer-Also called as "the Mountain of God", was built in the same manner
that they constructed the city of Uruk.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur - Answer-Sacred place of their chief god.
Wheel - Answer-Were not made for transportation but for farm work and food processes.
Plow - Answer-Who invented the dig the Earth in a faster pace.
Bitumen - Answer-A black sticky substance similar to asphalt.
Babylon - Answer-Emerged near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Babylonians - Answer-Were great builders, engineers, and architects.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Answer-It was said to be a structure made up of layers upon layers of
gardens that contained several species of plants, trees, and vines.
Egypt - Answer-Located in North Africa.
Papyrus - Answer-Was a plant that grew abundantly in Nile river in Egypt.
ANSWERS
Transportation - Answer-Was significant during Ancient Times because people were trying to go to
places and discover new horizons.
Communication - Answer-Record-keeping was also important since they needed to remember the
places they had been to and document the trades they made with each other.
Weapons and Armors - Answer-Important as well in the discovery of new places or the establishment of
new alliances with other tribes.
Conservation of Life - Answer-The early people might have been successful in harnessing the rich
resources that the world could provide, but their survival post a grade problem.
Sumeria - Answer-Located at the southernmost tip of ancient Mesopotamia.
Sumerians - Answer-Known for their high degree of cooperation with one another and their desire for
great things.
, Cuneiform - Answer-It is a system that utilizes word pictures and triangular symbols which are carved
on clay using wedge instruments and then left to dry.
Uruk City - Answer-It is a great wonder not only because it is considered to be the first true city in the
world but also for the way it was erected.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur - Answer-Also called as "the Mountain of God", was built in the same manner
that they constructed the city of Uruk.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur - Answer-Sacred place of their chief god.
Wheel - Answer-Were not made for transportation but for farm work and food processes.
Plow - Answer-Who invented the dig the Earth in a faster pace.
Bitumen - Answer-A black sticky substance similar to asphalt.
Babylon - Answer-Emerged near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Babylonians - Answer-Were great builders, engineers, and architects.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Answer-It was said to be a structure made up of layers upon layers of
gardens that contained several species of plants, trees, and vines.
Egypt - Answer-Located in North Africa.
Papyrus - Answer-Was a plant that grew abundantly in Nile river in Egypt.
