Exam 1: Beginnings

What development during the Neolithic period made possible the growth of communities and villages?

Who was the central figure of Minoan religion?

_______________________ Tomb chamber in the shape of a beehive

_______________________ Egyptian god who was symbolic of death and rebirth.

_______________________ Vertical shafts running down through Minoan palaces.

What are three universal themes touched upon in the Epic of Gilgamesh?

What important archaeological discovery was made by Heinrich Schliemann?

What city was buried beneath the Roman city of Ilium?

Who discovered the civilization which predated the Mycenaeans?

What is the Greek myth of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth?

What are the six characteristics of civilized societies and of civilization mentioned in the textbook?

How was national unity maintained in ancient Egypt despite the differences between the regions of the Upper and Lower Nile?

Where did the Sumerians first settle?

Where are some of the oldest paintings of humankind found?

_______________________ Sumerian religious structure.

_______________________ Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Sphinx.

What civilization conquered the Babylonian Empire?

How did the art of Amarna differ from conventional Egyptian art?

According to legend, who dictated to King Hammurabi the laws which he would later include in the Law Code of Hammurabi?

What was the first great literary work of ancient Mesopotamia?