Ancient Middle East

Test Review

1. Belief in many gods

• a) Polytheism b) Monotheism• c) Polygamy d) Monogamy

2) This Semetic language speaking group invaded and settled the area

that became Babylon.• a) Philistines• b) Amorites

• c) Midianites • d) Malachites

3) What term is used to describe the shift of early man from a

hunter/gatherer lifestyle to systematic agriculture?

• a) Systematic agriculture

• b) Neolithic revolution

• c) paleolithic revolution • d) the stone age

4) The writing system of the Sumerians, the first ever, was

called what?

• a) Heiroglyphics • b) Cuneiform

• c) Heiratic • d) Papyrus

5) Many animals were considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians,

especially these, associated with the goddess Bast

• a) Wolves • b) Adders

• c) Birds • d) Cats

6) This most famous of Babylonian rulers created the first written code of laws

that included ideas such as "an eye for an eye," and "let the buyer

beware."

• a) Sargon • b) Khufu

• c) Cyrus the Great • d) Hammurabi

7) The change toward systematic agriculture falls under which of the

five themes of geography?

• a) Movement • b) Location

• c) Human/Environment interaction

• d) Region

8) The first example of written literature, it is the story of a

babylonian King who faces many challenges.

• a) The Illiad • b) The Odyssey

• c) The Epic of Gilgamesh d) The Aenied

9) What does Mesopotamia mean?

• a) Land between the rivers

• b) Fertile crescent

• c) Land of God • d) Land of Plenty

10) A society in which men have the power is called...

• a) Matriarchal • b) Patriarchal

• c) Justified • d) Midianite

11) Semetic language speakers who settled in the northern Tigris

valley around 3000 BCE• a) Assyrians • b) Babylonians

• c) Israelites • d) Sumerians

12) which is not one of the ways in which humans interact with their

environment?

• a) Destroy • b) Adapt

• c) Modify • d) Depend

13) Open horse-drawn carriages used in Warfare by many ancient civilizations

but associated primarily with the Assyrians.

• a) Wagon • b) coach

• c) fiacre • d) chariot

14) Assyrians were known for their ____________ in battle

• a) Mercy • b) Prowess

• c) Brutality • d) Armor

15) The fundamental base for the Egyptian economy was...

• a) Industry • b) Agriculture

• c) trade • d) slavery

16) The only Empire of Mesopotamia that submitted to a queen

• a) Babylon • b) Assyria

• c) Persia • d) Sumer

17) This empire developed a sophisticated and effective military that included a Corps of Engineers

• a) Persians • b) Babylonians

• c) Assyrians • d) Sumerians

18) What is the Jewish name for God

• a) Megiddo • b) Ma'at

• c) Allah • d) Yahweh

19) What is the name for the Egyptian concept truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice.

• a) Megiddo • b) Cronos

• c) ma'at • d) Yathrib

20) Which civilization was the first to develop city-states

• a) Babylon • b) Sumer

• c) Assyria • d) Greece

21) Which Homonid emerged after Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalensis)?

• a) Cro-Magnon man • b) Homo Sapiens

Sapiens

• c) Homo Heidelbergensis

• d) Homo Erectus

22) which was NOT a reason for the stability of ancient Egypt?

• a) Militaristic society • b) Strong leadership

• c) Freedom from invasion

• d) intellectual and cultural activities

23) The longest river in the world, this river was a central aspect of

life in ancient Egypt.

• a) Tigris • b) Euphrates

• c) Nile • d) Niger

24) which is not a division of Egyptian political history?

• a) Ancient Kingdom • b) Old Kingdom

• c) Middle Kingdom • d) New Kingdom

25) This is the name of high, mountain like temples built by the

ancient Sumerians

• a) Pyramids • b) Mosques

• c) Synagogues • d) Ziggurats

26) The archaic period is marked by what event?

• a) The building of the Great Pyramid

• b) The unification of Egypt under the first Pharaoh

• c) The Hyksos invasion • d) The Exodus of the

Israelites

27) This "great" ruler was known for his mercy.

• a) Darius • b) Cyrus

• c) Solomon • d) Sargon

28) Which civilization was not located in Mesopotamia?

• a) Babylon • b) Sumer

• c) Assyria • d) Greece

29) A type of region that is based entirely on what people think is a...

• a) Formal region • b) functional region

• c) official region • d) perceptual region

30) Israel eventually divided, the north remained Israel, while the south became known as what?

• a) Yeshua • b) Judah

• c) Nineveh • d) Babylon

31) A society in which women have the power is called...

• a) Patriarchal • b) Matriarchal

• c) Justified • d) Midianite

32) The Persians were eventually conquered by whom?

• a) Sargon of Akkad• b) Julius Caesar

• c) Augustus Caesar • d) Alexander the Great

33) What leader eventually conquered the Sumerians?

• a) Sargon of Akkad • b) Alexander the Great

• c) Hammurabi • d) Cyrus the Great

34) Belief in one God

• a) Polytheism • b) Monotheism

• c) Polygamy • d) Monogamy

35) The Capital city of the Assyrian Empire.

• a) Nineveh • b) Babylon

• c) Ur • d) Jerusalem

36) Egyptian god, associated with the Nile

• a) Amon • b) Ra

• c) Isis • d) Osiris

37) These Egyptians God-Kings were at the top of the socio-political pyramid.

• a) Emperor • b) Pharaoh

• c) Consul • d) Czar

38) The language of the Persians, it was also the language spoken by

Christ and early Christians.

• a) Aramaic • b) Hebrew

• c) Greek • d) Latin

39) This process of preserving the dead was common among the

wealthy of ancient Egypt• a) Embalming • b) Cremation

• c) Mummification • d) sarcophogus

40) this reed was used to make paper by the Egyptians

• a) Papyrus • b) Bamboo

• c) Cattail • d) cotton

41) Branch of Mathematics concerning the calculation of volume

and area, advanced heavily by the Egyptians.

• a) Geometry • b) Calculus

• c) Algebra • d) Trigonometry

42) King of Israel who expanded the government, trade, and army

of the Israelites.• a) Saul • b) David

• c) Solomon • d) Cyrus

43) The first written law of the Israelites was known as what?

• a) The Hammurabic code

• b) The Ten Commandments

• c) The Rosetta Stone • d) The Burning Bush

44) This empire was known to allow subjugated peoples to retain their own

identity.

• a) The Assyrians • b) The Persians

• c) The Israelites • d) The Babylonians

45) The Persian Road system that stretched all over the empire was

known as...• a) The silk road • b) the Persian road

• c) the royal road • d) the empirial road

46) This word means to train plants and animals to be useful to humans.

• a) Human/Environment interaction

• b) Systematic agriculture

• c) Neolithic revolution • d) Domestication

47) Persian Kings eventually lost favor with their people by doing what?

• a) Invading more territory

• b) Raising taxes

• c) Making military service mandatory

• d) allowing outside rule

48) Hieroglyphics means...

• a) religious writings • b) Sacred Writings

• c) Beautiful Writings • d) important writings

49) Which is NOT one of the five themes of Geography?

• a) Human/environment interaction

• b) culture

• c) movement • d) place

50) Combined god of the Egyptians that represented the sun

• a) Amon-Ra • b) Osiris

• c) Isis • d) Sekmet

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