Exam 2: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Persian king who undertook an invasion of the Greek mainland in the early fifth century was

The greatest international sea traders of the ancient Near East were the

Assyrian art was primarily concerned with

Scholars agree that between ____ and ____ B.C., the Israelites emerged as a distinct group of peoples who established a united kingdom known as Israel.

The central, sacred text of Zoroastrianism is the

All of the following were Assyrian kings except for

All of the following are correct about Byblos except:

The decline of the Hittites and Egyptians around 1200 B.C.

The elite infantry of the Persian army were known as the?

The Greeks and the Romans, Indo-European speakers, derived their alphabet from the Semitic-speaking Phoenicians.

Which of the following statements best describes the Assyrian government?

Like most other empires in the ancient world, the Assyrians refused to mix their conquered peoples with native Assyrians and instead kept those who were conquered isolated and separated from each other and from the Assyrian rulers.

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are known as the Zend Avesta.

The Hebrew religion

All of the following are true of the Hebrew conception of God except

The sun god, who became a helper of Ahuramazda and later, in Roman times, the source of another religion, was

The Persian god was Ahuramazda.

Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire, was a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.

Which of the following was not part of the Hebrew religious tradition?

Moses united the Israelites after the Egyptian bondage by putting them under the protection of a new national god named