Question 1

What happened to the Hebrew kingdom after Solomon's death?

Accepted Answer

A)  Its leaders continued to consolidate politically. 
B)  Conflict led to its split into two separate kingdoms. 
C)  The kingdom was largely destroyed by an internal power struggle. 
D)  Leaders gained the military protection of the Assyrians. 
A)  Its leaders continued to consolidate politically. 
B)  Conflict led to its split into two separate kingdoms. 
C)  The kingdom was largely destroyed by an internal power struggle. 
D)  Leaders gained the military protection of the Assyrians.

Question 2

Explain why the Persians created a system of roads and how these roads benefited their empire.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The Persia

Question 3

Who worked the land owned by the king, nobles, and temples in ancient Sumer?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hired laborers 
B)  Priests in training 
C)  Client farmers and slaves 
D)  Scribes and soldiers 
A)  Hired laborers 
B)  Priests in training 
C)  Client farmers and slaves 
D)  Scribes and soldiers

Question 4

Which Hebrew leader captured the city of Jerusalem?

Accepted Answer

A)  Judah 
B)  David 
C)  Saul 
D)  Solomon 
A)  Judah 
B)  David 
C)  Saul 
D)  Solomon

Question 5

What was the intended function of Hammurabi's code?

Accepted Answer

A)  To regulate the relationships among his people and promote their welfare 
B)  To intimidate the common people in order to prevent social upheaval 
C)  To protect the position of nobles and priests at the expense of the commoners 
D)  To increase the nobility's power over the priesthood 
A)  To regulate the relationships among his people and promote their welfare 
B)  To intimidate the common people in order to prevent social upheaval 
C)  To protect the position of nobles and priests at the expense of the commoners 
D)  To increase the nobility's power over the priesthood

Question 6

How did Egyptians view the afterlife?

Accepted Answer

A)  As bleak and very frightening 
B)  As pleasant 
C)  As a place of punishment 
D)  As a fictional realm that nonetheless inspired great wonder 
A)  As bleak and very frightening 
B)  As pleasant 
C)  As a place of punishment 
D)  As a fictional realm that nonetheless inspired great wonder

Question 7

Why did older men have the most power in the Mesopotamian social system?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mesopotamian societies were patriarchal. 
B)  The most important value in Mesopotamian society was reverence for elders. 
C)  Older men tended to form political alliances with powerful priests. 
D)  Older men presided over important ancestor-worship rituals. 
A)  Mesopotamian societies were patriarchal. 
B)  The most important value in Mesopotamian society was reverence for elders. 
C)  Older men tended to form political alliances with powerful priests. 
D)  Older men presided over important ancestor-worship rituals.

Question 8

What surrounded Sumerian temples?

Accepted Answer

A)  Forests 
B)  Barren land 
C)  The king's palace 
D)  The houses of ordinary citizens 
A)  Forests 
B)  Barren land 
C)  The king's palace 
D)  The houses of ordinary citizens

Question 9

Use the following to answer questions :
-Hammurabi's law code

Accepted Answer

A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world. 
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. 
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus. 
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. 
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F)A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H)People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life. 
A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world. 
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. 
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus. 
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. 
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F)A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H)People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.

Question 10

Which of the following describes the earliest Sumerian writings?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were ideograms in which each sign symbolized an idea. 
B)  They were pictographs in which each sign pictured an object. 
C)  Each symbol represented a sound in the spoken language. 
D)  They were written using the first known alphabet. 
A)  They were ideograms in which each sign symbolized an idea. 
B)  They were pictographs in which each sign pictured an object. 
C)  Each symbol represented a sound in the spoken language. 
D)  They were written using the first known alphabet.

Question 11

Where did Sumerians build their largest temples?

Accepted Answer

A)  On the outskirts of the cities 
B)  In the middle of crop fields 
C)  On man-made islands in the river 
D)  In the center of the city 
A)  On the outskirts of the cities 
B)  In the middle of crop fields 
C)  On man-made islands in the river 
D)  In the center of the city

Question 12

Use the following to answer questions :
-Yahweh

Accepted Answer

A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world. 
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. 
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus. 
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. 
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F)A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H)People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life. 
A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world. 
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. 
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus. 
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. 
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F)A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H)People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.

Question 13

What is the key theme of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

Accepted Answer

A)  The duty of a soldier to serve the king 
B)  The constant battle between good and evil 
C)  The idea that men and women were created by magic 
D)  Humanity's search for immortality 
A)  The duty of a soldier to serve the king 
B)  The constant battle between good and evil 
C)  The idea that men and women were created by magic 
D)  Humanity's search for immortality

Question 14

What important contribution did the Hyksos make to Egyptian society?

Accepted Answer

A)  They encouraged Egyptians to worship the god Amon. 
B)  Their bronze technology and weaponry was adopted by Egyptians. 
C)  As naval pioneers, they introduced the center-stern rudder to Egyptian ships. 
D)  Their mathematicians introduced the abacus to Egypt. 
A)  They encouraged Egyptians to worship the god Amon. 
B)  Their bronze technology and weaponry was adopted by Egyptians. 
C)  As naval pioneers, they introduced the center-stern rudder to Egyptian ships. 
D)  Their mathematicians introduced the abacus to Egypt.

Question 15

Mesopotamia and Egypt were both sites of ancient civilizations. Describe each civilization in terms of its political structure, religion, society, and culture. How can we account for the similarities and differences between them?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
For politi

Question 16

What do different writing materials-clay tablets, bones, bamboo, etc.-reveal about the respective culture that used them?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The materi

Question 17

Around 2300 B.C.E., what chieftain conquered Sumer and created an empire?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hammurabi 
B)  Menes 
C)  Akhenaten 
D)  Sargon 
A)  Hammurabi 
B)  Menes 
C)  Akhenaten 
D)  Sargon

Question 18

According to Hammurabi's code, who controlled a woman's dowry after she married?

Accepted Answer

A)  A judge 
B)  The woman's husband 
C)  The woman's father 
D)  The woman herself 
A)  A judge 
B)  The woman's husband 
C)  The woman's father 
D)  The woman herself

Question 19

How did historians of the eighteenth century define "civilization," and what lasting problems has this created?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Eighteenth

Question 20

Use the following to answer questions :
-Phoenicians

Accepted Answer

A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world. 
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. 
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus. 
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. 
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F)A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H)People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life. 
A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world. 
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. 
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus. 
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. 
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F)A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G)The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H)People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I)The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J)A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.

Exam 2: Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley, 3800-500 Bce

What happened to the Hebrew kingdom after Solomon's death?

Explain why the Persians created a system of roads and how these roads benefited their empire.

Who worked the land owned by the king, nobles, and temples in ancient Sumer?

Which Hebrew leader captured the city of Jerusalem?

What was the intended function of Hammurabi's code?

How did Egyptians view the afterlife?

Why did older men have the most power in the Mesopotamian social system?

What surrounded Sumerian temples?

Use the following to answer questions : -Hammurabi's law code

Which of the following describes the earliest Sumerian writings?

Where did Sumerians build their largest temples?

Use the following to answer questions : -Yahweh

What is the key theme of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

What important contribution did the Hyksos make to Egyptian society?

Mesopotamia and Egypt were both sites of ancient civilizations. Describe each civilization in terms of its political structure, religion, society, and culture. How can we account for the similarities and differences between them?

What do different writing materials-clay tablets, bones, bamboo, etc.-reveal about the respective culture that used them?

Around 2300 B.C.E., what chieftain conquered Sumer and created an empire?

According to Hammurabi's code, who controlled a woman's dowry after she married?

How did historians of the eighteenth century define "civilization," and what lasting problems has this created?

Use the following to answer questions : -Phoenicians

The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 Bce

The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 Ce

Chinas Classical Age, to 221 Bce

The Greek Experience, 3500-30 Bce

The World of Rome, Ca 1000 Bce-400 Ce

East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, 221 Bce-845 Ce

Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, 250-850

The Islamic World, 600-1400

African Societies and Kingdoms, 1000 Bce-1500 Ce

The Americas, 3200 Bce-1500 Ce

Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia, 300-1400

States and Cultures in East Asia, 800-1400

Europe and Western Asia in the Middle Ages, 800-1450

Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 1350-1600

The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600

The Islamic World Powers, 1300-1800

European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750

New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540-1790

Africa and the World, 1400-1800

Continuity and Change in East Asia, 1400-1800

Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1825

The Revolution in Energy and Industry, 1760-1850

Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815-1914

Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the New Imperialism, 1800-1914

Asia and the Pacific in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914

The Americas in the Age of Liberalism, 1810-1917

World War and Revolution, 1914-1929

Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939

The Great Depression and World War Ii, 1929-1945

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