What geographic feature had the largest impact on Egyptian culture and prosperity? |
Nile River |
Settled agriculture developed first in Sumeria because of what particular natural feature? |
Rivers that brought new soil with floods |
The Sumerian mathematical system was based on units of 60,10, and 6 and survives in what modern system? |
Time Measurement |
The most important source of our knowledge of ancient Jews has been? |
The Hebrew Bible |
Hammurabi’s code was designed to |
Regulate the relationships among his people and promote their welfare |
Who worked the land owned by the king, nobles, or temples in ancient Sumeria? |
Client Farmers and slaves |
In 1300 BCE the Hitites and Egypitans formed an alliance that promoted trade and was joined by what other state? |
Babylonia |
Which of the following best describes a ziggurat-style temple? |
Stepped pyramid |
Two characteristics that made Cyrus a remarkable warrior-king were his concept of empire and his |
benevolence and humanity as a ruler |
The pharaoh was responsible for integrating |
gods and humans |
In addition to papyrus, Egyptian heiroglyphs were |
written on walls |
In general, how did residents of ancient cities tend to view residents of rural areas? |
City dwellers viewed themselves as more sophisticated |
Taxation in Sumeria probably began as a system for supporting what feature? |
Temples |
One of the earliest gods worshipped by the Egyptians was Amon, god of |
the sky |
At what point did slavery become widespread in Egypt? |
New Kingdom |
Ancient Egyptians believed that which pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom? |
Menes |
The Hebrew leader who captured the city of Jerusalem was |
David |
One of Cyrus the Great’s goals in forming the Persian Empire was to protect eastern Iran from |
nomadic invaders |
Where in the city did Sumeria build their large ziggurat temples? |
In the center of the city |
The Hebrews created a monarchy with Saul by fighting what other Palestinian people in the eleventh century BCE? |
Philistines |
Egyptians believed that what, or who, controlled the rise and fall of the Nile? |
Pharaoh |
What city became the capital of Sargon’s empire? |
Akkad |
The destruction of the Assyrian Empire paved the way for the emergence of… |
The Persian Empire |
In the Egyptian religious system, who killed the god Osiris? |
Seth, His brother |
The term "history" comes from what early writer? |
Herodotus |
During the babylonian Captivity, the hebrew religion… |
was redefined |
Early states used what method to control their populace? |
Threats of violence |
In Sumeria the people who were "clients" were |
free people who were dependent on nobles |
How did Herodotus share his written history of the Greek-Persian wars? |
It was recited orally |
The Assyrians |
were one of the most warlike people in history |
In ancient Israel, the education of children |
was the responsibility of both mothers and fathers |
Ahuramazda and Angra Mainyu |
represented good and evil |
Hammurabi secured Babylon’s cultural power through |
his success in making Marduk, the god of Babylon, sovereign to all other gods |
In mespotamia, what material was used for writing? |
Soft Clay |
The frist states that historians know of were developed in what region? |
Mesopotamia |
In hammurabi’s law code, who controlled a woman’s dowry when she married? |
She did |
The new kingdom was maredly different from the previous Middle and Old kingdoms by focusing more attention on |
conquest |
To rival the power of the temples, miltary leaders who became kings began to build what kinds of structures? |
palaces |
The phoenician’s greatest cultural achievement was the |
created of a phonetic alphabet |
Afer Solomon’s death, the Hebrew kingdom |
was largely destroyed by an internal power struggle |
Zoroaster taught that |
people possessed free will and were accountable for their own actions |
A contribution of the Hyksos to Egyptian society was through |
the making of bronze |
The earliest Sumerian writings |
were pictographs in which each sign pictured an object |
Hittites were different from the peoples of Mesopotamia and Egypt because of |
their use of iron weapons and an indo-european language |
Although reasons for writing changed over time, Sumerian scribes were first trained mainly to |
property and wealth records |
How does papyrus compare to clay tablets as a writing material? |
It is more fragile and less likely to survive |
The first rulers of Sumerian city-states such as Ur ad Uruk were |
priests |
The name Phoenician is a Greek term derived from the Phoenician |
purple textiles |
Where did Sumerian scribes learn the cuneiform writing system? |
scribal schools |
Akhenaten’s interest in monotheism failed in Egypt because |
it was imposed on people and enforced by intolerance |
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