Exam 1: The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

Please use this outline map of the Near East to answer the question(s). -On the map of the Near East, locate the approximate sites of the following ancient cities: Memphis, Tyre, Sidon, Babylon, and Nineveh.

The authors define all of the following as characteristics of early civilization except

In the Mesopotamian civilization the temple administration functioned in each of the following ways except

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

Provisions related to business transactions in the Code of Hammurabi indicate that in ancient Mesopotamia

Which group invented the first alphabet?

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

Compare how the Mesopotamians and Egyptians understood science.

Please use this outline map of the world to answer the question(s). -What were some of the negative consequences first of the agricultural revolution and later of the development of civilization?

One may credit Ashurbanipal with

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

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Indo-Europeans

Cuneiform may be described as

Which of the following provided a basis for the Mesopotamian civilization?

Which of the following best explains the Mesopotamian religious worldview about disease?

Please use this outline map of the Near East to answer the question(s). -On the map of the Near East, trace the location of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Mark and identify the sea into which the rivers flow.

​From studying the Hammurabi Code, historians have learned that

Please use this outline map of the world to answer the question(s). -Refer to some ways that people during the Paleolithic era showed evidence of an ability to form abstractions.

The term satrap relates to a

All of the following happened during the Neolithic age except