Topic 2: Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent Test

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Which date marks the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora?

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587 bce

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Sumer is important in world history because it was...

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the world's first civilization

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When Judaism began, how was it different from other religions in the ancient world?

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Judaism held that there was one God who set down laws about right and wrong.

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What led to the conquest of Sumer? Options: the unification of city-states, the peace among city-states, the fighting among city-states, the wealth of city-states

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the fighting among city-states

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What did Sumerian sculptors create that was different from earlier sculptors?

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realistic statues of humans

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What does the excerpt from Hammurabi’s Code illustrate about the nature of the law? “If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician [aristocrat], his eye shall be knocked out. . . If he has knocked out the eye of a plebeian [commoner] . . . he shall pay one mina of silver. If he has knocked out the eye of a patrician’s servant . . . he shall pay half his value.”

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The law did not treat all members of society equally.

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What city became the center of Hammurabi’s Mesopotamian empire?

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Babylon

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The official religion of the Persian Empire was Zoroastrianism, whose main belief is...

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the universe is in a struggle between good and evil

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How did Cyrus the Great’s treatment of the Jews of Jerusalem differ from that of the neo-Babylonians?

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Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem, while the neo-Babylonians forced them into exile.

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What could BEST be inferred from the map? Options: Phoenicia was frequently at war with other empires, Phoenicians traded with peoples in Africa and Europe, The population of Phoenicia and its colonies was larger than that of Greece and its colonies, Greece and its colonies benefited from a better climate for agriculture

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Phoenicians traded with peoples in Africa and Europe