Exam 1: The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Refer to some ways that people during the Paleolithic era showed evidence of an ability to form abstractions.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -civilization

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Code of Hammurabi

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Explain, in detail, the Paleolithic Age.Why is the Paleolithic Age considered to be prehistory?

Which of the following was not part of or pertained to Mesopotamian religion?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of the Near East to answer the question(s). -Clearly mark the location of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.Locate and identify the body of water into which the rivers flow.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -sympathetic magic

Which of the following groups ruled Egypt after the fall of the New Kingdom?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -mythopoeic

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Neolithic Revolution

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -What factors contributed to the development of Egyptian civilization? What was their impact on the nature of the Egyptian monarchy and Egyptian society in general?

During the Paleolithic Age, humankind illustrated each of the following developments except

Which of the following cannot be attributed to the Sumerians?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Provide a short history of the New Kingdom.Place the New Kingdom into the overall pattern of Egyptian history.

Which of the following cannot be associated with the emergence of international empires after 1500 B.C.?

Mesopotamian astronomy

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Hatshepsut

Which of the following statements is true of the Hittite Empire?

Agriculture-the deliberate planting and cultivation of crops-and the domestication of animals directly led to all of the following except

Instructions: Please use this outline map of the Near East to answer the question(s). -Locate and label the areas where the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations were found.Locate and label the regions inhabited by the Hittites, Phoenicians, and Canaanites.